Australia implemented Magnitsky-style laws in 2021 but critics say little has been done to sanction human rights abusers from ...

The United States flew over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele ...

A successful open day prompts new calls for the South Australian government to reopen a historic jail in the Flinders Ranges ...

The Allan government is facing mounting calls to close a legal loophole that is shaving more than a year off murderers and rapists minimum sentences.

An Israeli hostage who was held by Hamas for more than a year described his captivity, saying the treatment of hostages was ...

Victoria's strict new bail laws could turn prisons struggling to cope with the influx of criminals into ticking timebombs, ...

Robert Pether, an Australian national who had been living in Elphin, Co. Roscommon, was arrested in Baghdad in April 2021.

Specialist police responded to an incident at Richlands Watch house just before 6pm on Sunday where a group of prisoners tried to break out. A watch house officer opened the cell to deliver food ...

Shock waves went throughout the whole nation when the SS Gothenburg sank off the coast of Queensland in February 1875. Its ...

HAVANA, March 10 (Reuters) - Cuba's top tribunal said late on Monday 553 prisoners had been released following a deal brokered by the Vatican that seemed in limbo after U.S. President Donald Trump ...

A killer Comanchero bikie is alleged to have carried out a brutal attack on two maximum security prison officers in Melbourne ...