“The Department can confirm that prisoners were fighting at Yatala Labour Prison this morning,” the spokeswoman said. “As a result, one prisoner was taken to hospital and is being assessed.

Police and department correctional teams were conducting a search at the Yatala Prison yesterday when they allegedly found a number of contraband items on a woman in the buffer zone.

Benjamin Anthony Shuman, 34, faced the Supreme Court on Monday via video link after stomping on, punching and kicking Jason Douglas Wright, 52, to death inside Yatala Labour Prison in 2023.

A prisoner is recovering in hospital after being stabbed inside the state’s main ... believed to involve a makeshift knife, at Yatala Labour Prison, Northfield, in Adelaide’s north on Sunday ...