Imprisoned Australian men suspected of being ISIS fighters could be freed from an Iraqi jail under renewed efforts to deport ...

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 ...

A new report has found Australian prisons are failing to meet the needs of elderly prisoners. And the study, commissioned by The Salvation Army, has found elderly prisoners make up the fastest-growing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Five of the so-called “Bali Nine” prisoners were returned to Australia, more than 19 years after their arrests in a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a lawsuit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breaches his human right ...

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 man, 40, was rushed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital after becoming ill in prison, The Advertiser understands. The ...