There is no single system accountable for prisoner reintegration after release. The result is a predictable cycle of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Five of the so-called “Bali Nine” prisoners were returned to Australia, more than 19 years after their arrests in a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a lawsuit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breaches his human right ...

Beaming into a small Sydney courtroom on Friday via video link, Ben Roberts-Smith sat silently as he appeared on war crimes charges for the first time. The country's most-decorated living soldier was ...

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show prisoner numbers are growing in every Australian state and territory — except Victoria. Nationally, our per capita imprisonment rate outpaces Canada, ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge on Monday sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s ...

A delegation of United Nations inspectors has delivered a scathing assessment of Australia's treatment of prisoners and other detainees, following a 12-day visit to the country. The UN Working Group ...

The lawyer for the accused Bondi Beach gunman, Naveed Akram, commented in court that his client was subject to “very onerous conditions” at Goulburn’s supermax prison. Goulburn Correctional Complex, ...

Australia's most decorated living veteran Ben Roberts-Smith was released on bail after being charged with war crime murder ...