A Swiss man was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for trying to smuggle 21 kilograms of cocaine into Australia in ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge on Monday sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a ...

EXCLUSIVE: The killer of Sydney woman Cecilia Haddad has been soaking up the sun at world famous Copacabana Beach after ...

A female prisoner is fighting for life after being severely bashed with a metal pole by a fellow inmate, almost losing a ...

During the Second World War, a PoW camp in southeast Australia nearby the township Cowra housed mainly Japanese and Italian prisoners. During the night of August 5th 1944, a bugle sounded in the ...

The prison population in Australia is at its highest-ever recorded level. Over the past decade, the number and rate of people imprisoned across all Australian states and territories has risen rapidly.

Australian prosecutors said Monday they had launched an appeal against last month's "manifestly inadequate" sentence for convicted murderer Erin Patterson, local media reported, after a trial that ...

Former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan has appealed his extradition from Australia to the United States.

The South Australian government is under growing pressure to ban transgender women from female prisons after revelations a ...

SYDNEY: An Australian politician used parliamentary privilege on Oct 23 to reveal the identity of a person who confessed to ...

The women and children who recently smuggled themselves out of a Syrian detention camp and returned to Australia proved that ...

Prisoners who dined on guinea pigs they sourced from an animal shelter while on work release did nothing illegal.