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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

Prison staff directed a sex offender migrant, who was accidentally freed, towards a station to help him get a train to London, a witness claimed.

Books and prisons have a strained relationship. I regularly get letters from people in prison complaining that their prison ...

Convicted pedophile and former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins died after he was stabbed in the neck in prison, an inquest ...