A prison inmate who has been charged with the murder of Soham killer Ian Huntley has appeared in Crown Court for the first ...

Human Rights Law Centre analysis finds more than 15,000 strip-searches are conducted on average each month, but just 0.58% result in contraband being found ...

When I get a call from Mark (not his real name) from inside a Sydney prison, he immediately speaks openly about his past.

Family First South Australian Legislative Council candidate Deepa Mathew says Premier Peter Malinauskas can no longer dismiss concerns about men in ...

A First Nations advocate and activist for incarcerated women says the social contract between the Australian government and ...

A challenge to a ruling curbing access to compensation for four former inmates of Don Dale Youth Detention Centre who were sprayed with CS gas in 2014 will be heard at the High Court in Canberra today ...

NSW prisons are rolling out specialised training for guards to work with female prisoners deemed to be a national security threat, fanning concerns over the return of ISIS brides and lack of clarity ...

For more than 150 years, the 20-inch-thick bluestone walls of Pentridge Prison saw it all. On one side lay the quiet suburb of Coburg, in Melbourne, Australia, while on the other, some of the ...

Three corrections staff have been brutally bashed at the Adelaide Remand Centre in the past week, with low prison officer numbers translating into a rapid escalation in assaults on staff and inmates ...