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

Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...

From food delivery drivers to pets in separation and the much-discussed teens social media ban, Australian law has undergone ...

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

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

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 ...

An Indonesian court has sentenced an Australian man to 12 years in prison for smuggling cocaine to Bali DENPASAR, Indonesia -- An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced an Australian citizen to 12 ...

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 ...

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

An audit by Israel’s Public Defender’s Office found conditions for Palestinian security prisoners deteriorated severely after the attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, including extreme overcrowding, hunger and ...