Gerald Risdale, an 89-year-old former Australian priest, has been in prison since 1994 after being convicted of abusing dozens of children from 1961 to 1988. His prison sentence was extended by a year ...

A new Australian-first study from the Burnet Institute has found that every dollar invested in Australian prison needle and syringe programs could save more than two dollars in treatment costs for ...

A hard-hitting prison drama has been climbing the streaming charts in the UK — five years after it last aired in its native Australia. Now streaming on 5, Wentworth Prison (known simply as Wentworth ...

Twenty-six years after the closure of the infamous Australian prison known as Pentridge, a luxury hotel is offering customers the chance to stay in the “world's first urban wellness retreat in a ...

In this image made from a 2005 video, Abdul Benbrika, an Algerian-born Muslim cleric, speaks during an interview at his home in Melbourne, Australia. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP, File) ...

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show prisoner numbers are growing in every Australian state and territory — except Victoria. Nationally, our per capita imprisonment rate outpaces Canada, ...

The lawyer for the accused Bondi Beach gunman, Naveed Akram, commented in court that his client was subject to “very onerous conditions” at Goulburn’s supermax prison. Goulburn Correctional Complex, ...