Dozens of prisoners at two of Perth's largest jails are being forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor because of overcrowding. While concern about Casuarina and Hakea prisons overflowing has ...

These include a returned overseas traveller and three prisoners, two from Hakea Prison in Perth and one from Bunbury Regional Prison, as well as two healthcare workers at Bunbury Hospital.

So far in 2025, WA has had three measles notifications — already half the number recorded last year. Cases linked to Hakea Prison have caused delays to proceedings in Perth's District Court in ...

Paul Armstrong, director of WA Health’s Communicable Disease ... In a bid to contain the spread at Hakea Prison, Perth’s main remand centre, a mass vaccination drive has begun at the prison ...

Ricky-Lee Cound died in hospital three years ago after he was found with self-inflicted injuries in his cell at Hakea Prison ... who took his own life in a WA prison was in isolation for three ...