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 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 ...

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.

Prisons are out of control with violence increasing and drug use rampant, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been warned.

Kuwait has released six US citizens from prison in what a representative of the prisoners called an "extraordinary act of ...

Schoolgirl Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu, eight, was raped and then suffocated by Dante Arthurs in the bathrooms of a Perth ...