This practice effectively alleviated the issue of overcrowding in jails in England, but made things worse in Australia. Having visited the Melaka Prison Museum in Malaysia before, I found the idea ...

NSW ends private management of Parklea Prison, citing safety issues, understaffing, and profit-driven neglect.

A knifeman serving decades behind bars for killing a young sex worker faces more time locked up after becoming a 'problem child' in Australia's toughest prison. Mert Ney, 26, fronted Wollongong ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Prison Colony: A Convict's Tale Fight enemy vehicles on a procedurally generated, foreign world in this 3D Mecha game. Build better vehicles until you ...

Jan. 26 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, the first shipload of British convicts arrived in Australia. The establishment of an Australian prison colony was aimed at relieving overcrowding ...

Nauru, once a German colony, was occupied by Australia, Britain and New Zealand ... Many are traumatised refugees, and all have completed any prison sentences they received for earlier convictions.

SYDNEY: Australia's most notorious paedophile priest ... of abusing more than 70 children over three decades, died while in prison in the state of Victoria, the Australian Associated Press ...

Dhankhar, a former office-bearer of the Overseas Friends of BJP in Australia, has been sent to jail for 40 years by a Sydney ...

Many of Australia's most famous destinations are in Sydney, and another one you should add to your list is right in Sydney Harbour. Cockatoo Island/Wareamah, a former penal colony and naval dockya ...

At 21, Peake was a promising junior golfer from Western Australia, playing alongside ... A conviction for assault led to a five-year prison sentence. While incarcerated, Peake was contacted ...