On February 13, a New South Wales District Court sentenced 61-year-old Neil Simpson to eight years in jail for attempting to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erin Patterson leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria following her sentencing - AFP An Australian woman who murdered three elderly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside is a gritty Australian prison drama anchored by three deeply affecting and layered performances. Vincent Miller stars as a juvenile offender who transfers to an adult prison when he turns 18; ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian ex-priest convicted of sexually abusing children had another 12 months added to his 39-year prison sentence on Tuesday for molesting a 72nd victim. Gerald ...