The Adelaide Remand Centre furore has reignited Australia’s private prison debate. Are they managed as well as state-run ...

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 ...

Australia spends up to $30 billion each year running its criminal justice system – across police, courts and prisons – yet ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Five Australians who spent almost 20 years in Indonesian prisons for heroin trafficking returned to Australia on Sunday under a deal struck between the two governments, ...

Usually reserved for toast, Australia's divisive Vegemite spread has made its way onto front pages around the world after being pulled into a bitter legal row. A convicted murderer in the state of ...

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 ...