Corrections Victoria

Australian mum Kylie Cay "died in isolation, knowing help wasn't coming", her family says.

Family's horror after ambulance wasn't sent to help domestic violence victim

Five violent deaths, including one in which the victim hid in a dog kennel after a hammer attack, share a common factor: the killers were all subject to corrections orders.

Documents show police paid money into the prison canteen account of a drug cook-turned supergrass known as "Mr Cooper".

Text messages from Police Minister Lisa Neville revealed at the hotel quarantine inquiry show how disorganised the government was when it came to calling in the military.

Recordings of meetings that set up Victoria's failed hotel quarantine program reveal Australian Defence Force troops were on offer to the Victorian government from the outset.

Police will be out in force to ensure Melburnians are wearing a mask when they leave their house as Victoria continues to record high coronavirus numbers.

Only two Melbourne hotels are operating as quarantine facilities, with 14 others free of incoming travellers after closure of Victoria's borders.

Second Metropolitan Remand Centre prisoner tests positive for coronavirus

Victoria's two biggest prisons have been exposed to COVID-19 after an infected prisoner was transferred between the facilities.

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The man was swabbed for coronavirus as part of new COVID-19 protocols when he arrived at the Melbourne Assessment Prison on Monday.

Victoria has recorded another 134 new cases of coronavirus, as authorities warn police will dramatically increase their presence in areas that are going back into lockdown.

Parts of the Australian city have gone back into lockdown to try to contain a second Covid-19 wave.

Police probing the death of Zane Meyer, whose body was found in a paddock in Melbourne's south-east last week, have raised the prospect of more people of interest being investigated.

The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners in Victoria has risen 70 per cent under the Labor government, amid a national rising incarceration rate.

With an internal review revealing 25 parolees died in Victoria in 31 months, experts are now asking: Why won't the government set up a system for tracking deaths among people released from prison?

An ambulance was 700 metres away when Kylie Jane Cay died from a ruptured spleen four days after being bashed by her partner, a court has heard.

A leaked government document shows more staff in Victoria's quarantine hotels have tested positive for Covid-19, even after an overhaul of the entire system.

Most workers in Victoria's revamped hotel quarantine program who got infected with coronavirus were cleaners for contractor Spotless, Chief Health Officer says.