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

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

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

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

Steve Witkoff argued Hamas needed to "get much more sensible" about the extension of ceasefire in Gaza, as talks about the ...

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.

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

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

Hammered by protests and bad press over econonomic policies that have left Indonesia reeling, Prabowo Subianto turned to US ...

Presiding over the worst categories of offending in the NT Supreme Court, Judge Jenny Blokland is afforded a unique view of ...

After sitting through weeks of horrific evidence in the Brisbane trial of her son’s killers, the thoughts of Andrew Walsh’s ...

Built at a cost of more than $1 billion, an enormous new jail is empty more than two years after it was built – with millions spent on leaky ceilings and malfunctioning security.