Introduction This morning more than 20,000 Australians will wake up in a prison cell. What will their day bring? In Australia a person over the age of 18 who offends or who is apprehended for allegedly doing so, is dealt with in the adult criminal justice system. Once convicted the prisoner can be jailed and is generally forgotten about by the general population. Prisoner rights, conditions access to health safety etc. are mostly in conflict with administration …
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…The High Court has held that prison regulation do not confer on prisoners (Flyn v R (1949)79CLR1) This interpretation was adopted partly for policy reasons for it statues dealing with this subject matter were construed as intending to confer fixed legal rights upon prisoners it would result in applications to courts by prisoners for legal remedies addressed either to the Crown or gaolers in whose custody they remain. (Flynn vR (1949)79clr1 per Dixon J at 8)