As Australia and England clash in The Ashes cricket series, Australian War Memorial historians have uncovered two diaries ...

A delegation of United Nations inspectors have raised the alarm about Australia's detention facilities and a breach of human rights.

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in doing ...

Erin Patterson’s existence inside a tiny cell at Melbourne’s all women’s maximum security prison has been described as ...

More than 100 unseen videos from an infamous US murder case have been released under a new freedom of information access ...

An Aboriginal legal service in the NT will launch a challenge to laws it says undermine fundamental legal principles.

Cricket legend Imran Khan has gone from winning the World Cup with Pakistan to being locked up in an “insect-infected death ...

The son of a British woman detained alongside her husband in Iran has urged the UK government to do more to help them escape the dire conditions they are being held in.

Pentridge Prison’s radio station played donated albums for its inmates. Twenty-six years after the site’s sale, a local shop has landed its vinyl. Pentridge Prison’s radio station played donated ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia -- An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced an Australian citizen to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of smuggling cocaine to the tourist island of Bali.

Based on a six-year investigation and contraband cellphone footage that courageous incarcerated men supplied from inside one of America’s most dangerous and dysfunctional prison systems, filmmakers ...