Australia has recorded the highest number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody in more than four ...

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

The facility where detained Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been taken is a notorious New York jail that has held a ...

Alleged Bondi shooter Naveed Akram has been moved to the nation’s highest-security prison – where he will be held in ...

Australian Darcy Jenson will experience his “most memorable Christmas yet”, but for all the “wrong reasons” as he sits in isolation in Bali’s toughest jail on December 25.

The year has ended with two former South Australia Liberal MPs cooling their heels in prison cells. As reported by ...

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

The death of a mother-of-five in an outback watch house has been called a “devastating indictment of systemic failure” in the ...

A delegation of United Nations inspectors has delivered a scathing assessment of Australia's treatment of prisoners and other detainees, following a 12-day visit to the country. The UN Working Group ...

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

An alleged hit man who sought bail to return to his parent’s home will remain behind bars for the holiday season.