MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — 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 ...

Prisons in Australia have seen a spike in drugs intercepted in mail since the coronavirus outbreak saw visits suspended, with substances concealed in letters, cards and even a child's painting, ...

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 ...

Ex-prisoner Damien Linnane spent a decade trying to fix the system, only to find out everyone, even the authorities, had it all wrong.

One in nine people in prisons globally have a history of injecting drug use and their risk of HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis is up to 45 times higher than in the general population. Yet access ...

The media spotlight is once again on the issue of prison conditions, as sentencing looms for Erin Patterson, convicted for three murders after serving a beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms.

ADELAIDE, Australia — David Hicks, an Australian who is the only person convicted on terrorism charges at a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, walked free Saturday after more than six years ...

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 ...