Some convicts in Australia escaped and found shelter, solidarity, and even family among the Indigenous groups they'd been pitted against.

Erin Patterson, the Australian serving life for the mushroom murders, has officially lodged an appeal against her convictions ...

Erin Patterson was sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years, one of the longest sentences ever given ...

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.

A former New South Wales MP has been sentenced to almost six years in prison for raping a young man and sexually assaulting a ...

Three more women have claimed they were victims of South Australia’s most notorious transgender prisoner, a female advocacy ...

A prisoner has been taken to the hospital after the second alleged violent assault in two weeks in the South Australian ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian judge on Monday sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s ...

Several corrections officers have described a South Australian transgender prisoner ­accused of harassment, violence and sexual assault by six female inmates as “an intimidating figure” because of ...

In his latest annual report, Inspector of Custodial Services Eamon Ryan said the prison population and staffing shortages ...