Former Warrington Wolves half-back Chris Sandow has reportedly ‘narrowly’ avoided being sent to prison in Australia, ...

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show prisoner numbers are growing in every Australian state and territory — ...

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 ...

Abd el-Fattah, a software developer and blogger who rose to prominence as an activist in the 2011 Arab Spring, was jailed for ...

The prison population in the Northern Territory has skyrocketed to more than 2,600 this month following the imposition of the ...

Sam Abdulrahim’s larger-than-life reputation for ferocity was put to the test when he was confronted in prison by the man ...

Two bereaved parents and 12 fellow members of an Australian religious congregation accused of killing an 8-year-old girl by ...

Elizabeth Struhs died at home in Toowoomba surrounded by her family and members of the religious group, the Saints, after being denied insulin for her diabetes in the belief 'God would cure her' ...

Friends and advocates for Australian citizen Yang Hengjun have urged the Australian government to put more pressure on China, ...

In a freezing winter, Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun told Australian officials he could not afford a jumper and had ...

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 ...