NINE TV WINS RIGHT TO PUBLISH ‘MISLAID’ AUSTRALIAN PRISON SEX DOCUMENTS
December 13th 2007 00:19
Channel Nine has won the right to publish parts of mislaid State government documents containing allegations including sexual misconduct by prison officers, according to a report in The Age newspaper..
The television station obtained the mislaid files in 2007, and the government which then obtained Supreme Court injunctions stopping publication of documents.
The documents contained information about a prisoner who alleged she was subjected to sexual misconduct by a prison officer while in custody; investigation plans regarding alleged sexual assaults of prisoners by prison officers; a departmental investigation into a prisoner suicide; and a report prepared for the Western Australian Department of Justice.
After a six-day mostly-closed hearing, Justice Robert Osborn allowed limited publication of some documents, but suppressed publication of the West Australian prison report.
- From MediaBlab
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