Corrections Victoria

Being soap opera, but for your phone.

Cues and Corrections Victoria and the Department of Justice are breaching his human rights by denying him access to the

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Triple J. Yeah, in a second we're talking travelling to the wrong place.

This one is too good not to hit at the end of the shake-up.

It's such an interesting story about a person who is obsessed with a pantry staple so much that he decided to go to court over it.

A prisoner in Victoria.

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She said the ban was reasonable, given prison authorities, duties concerning security, good order and prisoners, safety and welfare.

Vegemite has been banned in Victorian prisons since 2006. Corrections Victoria cites concerns that it could interfere with narcotics detection dogs and could be used to brew alcohol.

Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania also ban the spread in prisons, while New South Wales allows it in correctional centres.

McKechnie was found guilty of stabbing property developer Otto Kuhn to death in Queensland and sentenced to life in prison.

And me, Erin Pearson, as we take you inside the courtrooms and trials that have the world talking.

Accused high country killer Greg Lynn has told a judge he's the victim, describing attacks in prison and how he's being paid peanuts to pack breakfast boxes behind bars as he begs to be released on bail ahead of a retrial next year over the alleged murder of Carol Clay, who vanished on a camping trip in Victoria's Wanangatta Valley more than six years ago.

Erin, let's very quickly sum up for the listeners what happened in yesterday's bail hearing.

And then we'll take everyone through some of these points in much finer detail.

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that's right.

And we need to remember that this all started back in March 2020 when Gregory Lynn went camping in the Wanangatta Valley in Victoria's high country.

He's then, the prosecution alleged, come across these two campers and at the end, both of them have died.

Barwon Prison has been placed in lockdown after a murderer allegedly stabbed a fellow inmate this morning.

We've reached out to Corrections Victoria, now waiting for a response.

109 Victorian students were reported for breaking examination rules last year, including one Year 12 student who used chat GPT to complete their VCE exam.

We'll be discussing that data in our news at the top of the hour.

That's okay.

Uh, I just, this is to, obviously, to Judge Parsons, but look, I was involved with Corrections Victoria for 15 years as a case manager.

Yep.

So I, I've seen a lot of people come and go, but the theory of trying to, like, rehab them into, like, a trade or trying to get them, um, like, socially functional, I reckon it'll never work.

So this year during NAIDOC week, our First Nations broadcasters shared the mic with inmates across six Victorian prisons.

Um, the Beyond the Bars broadcasts receive financial support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation, the Koori Justice Unit and Corrections Victoria at the Department of Justice and Community Safety, as well as Yarra City Council.

Um, we're going to be listening to another, um, episode of, um, the series.

This was first aired live from the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre on the 6th of July.