In Australia, Client Service Officers (CSOs) are responsible for checking in on the wellbeing of every Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander taken into custody within Victoria and Tasmania. Established ...

Pentridge Prison’s radio station played donated albums for its inmates. Twenty-six years after the site’s sale, a local shop ...

Erin Patterson was sentenced to life in prison Monday for murdering three of her husband’s family members with poisonous mushrooms in Australia. Patterson, 51, will be eligible for parole after 33 ...

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 relatives with death cap ...

A delegation of United Nations inspectors have raised the alarm about Australia's detention facilities and a breach of human ...

A convicted murderer is challenging an Australian state’s ban on prisoners eating Vegemite, asserting that withholding the "polarizing yeast-based spread" breaches his human right to "enjoy his ...

In a statement concluding its official visit to Australia, the independent UN experts described the scale of overincarceration and detention practices as ongoing human rights crises that require ...

This legislative action comes in response to a series of notable anti-Semitic incidents, which included the defacement of Jewish places of worship and community centers with Nazi symbols. Australia ...