The Latest Breaking News from Prison

Her sentence was described as ‘shocking and quite frankly terrifying’ by women’s rights campaigners

Carla Foster, 45, will be released from prison after her sentence for illegally obtaining abortion tablets to end her pregnancy was reduced.

Raghe Mohamed Abdi was killed by officers while moving towards them with a knife on Logan Motorway south of Brisbane

Former Wilmington, Delaware, police officer Samuel Waters faces up to eight years in prison after being convicted of assault, official misconduct, falsifying business records, and felony tampering with public records. Waters slammed a suspect's head against a plexiglass window during an arrest at a convenience store. Waters did not turn…

Jailed former priest David Edwin Rapson has been sentenced to more prison time for the historical abuse of three schoolboys in Tasmania.

A man accused of choking his sex worker ex-partner and concealing a prison knife attack will remain on remand due to his violent criminal history.

Chief inspector of prisons describes conditions at the young offenders’ institution as ‘appalling’

Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor described conditions at the young offenders’ institution as ‘appalling’.

Every city has a dark side.

Roberta Bell dismissed after offering to take in Katie Bourgeois’s baby for two months while she finished her prison term

California Democrats spent the final few days before summer recess in an unusual spot: embroiled in a legislative fight with Republicans, who typically operate in the shadow of the state’s blue supermajority.