A prison officer has been charged with having a relationship with an inmate jailed for more than a decade over the rape of young nanny in a park, police will allege.

A depraved serial rapist who once sexually violated a pregnant woman in Mackay during a nine-hour stand-off with police, has ...

Insiders have claimed prisoners from Townsville Correctional Centre were set to be released ahead of schedule to clear up capacity, but the government denied inmates are released due to overcrowding.

A Queensland Health communique has revealed hundreds of former prisoners were potentially exposed to HIV and hepatitis C after an inmate shared injecting equipment in prison.

Researchers and advocates are calling for needle exchange programs to be introduced in prisons to help combat the risks of ...