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Why is Australia spending billions on building new prisons?
Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show prisoner numbers are growing in every Australian state and territory — ...
Criminals could be sent to Iceland instead of prison (but not in an Australia way)
From 1788 to 1868 more than 162,000 convicts were sent from the UK to Australia. And now we no longer do that, we may pack ...
Former Australian Prison Mate of Jailed Egyptian-British Dissident Goes on Hunger Strike
Abd el-Fattah, a software developer and blogger who rose to prominence as an activist in the 2011 Arab Spring, was jailed for ...
Australian governments exposed for human rights violations on youth detention
The prison population in the Northern Territory has skyrocketed to more than 2,600 this month following the imposition of the ...
This town in Australia used to be a penal colony
Learn all about Australia's penal colony history at the Unesco World Heritage Site-listed Port Arthur in Tasmania.
Alleged Australia Day National Socialist Network neo-Nazis face Adelaide court
The alleged leader of an Australian neo-Nazi outfit fronted court in a fiery mood on Tuesday, claiming journalists might ...
Friends fear Chinese prison conditions confronting Australian Yang Hengjun
Friends and advocates for Australian citizen Yang Hengjun have urged the Australian government to put more pressure on China, ...
Australian forced to choose between food and clothes in Beijing jail
In a freezing winter, Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun told Australian officials he could not afford a jumper and had ...
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Former Australian prison mate of jailed Egyptian-British dissident goes on hunger strike
LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - An Australian journalist ... a sentence that followed several previous spells in prison, including before and after the uprising. Peter Greste on Monday joined Abd ...