The Tokyo High Court on Sept. 29 ordered the government to pay 200,000 yen (about $1,350) in damages to a prison inmate who ...

The ACT government will expand the use of electronic body scanners to the courts after their use in Canberra's only prison saw a dramatic drop in the need to strip search prisoners.

An East Elmhurst man is facing 50 years to life in prison after he was convicted by a jury on Thursday of killing his mother ...

George Allen, now 73 years old, has been behind bars for two decades for killing and burying his friend and business associate, Garry McGrath, on his acreage east of Edmonton.

10,000 prison officers will be given body armour after a spate of high-profile attacks, the Justice Secretary has announced.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called on escaped inmates to return to their prisons and surrender any weapons taken during recent jailbreaks.

Canberra's only prison breached the human rights of a former Aboriginal detainee by illegally strip-searching her while she was held in remand there in 2021, the ACT Supreme Court has found.

Although the officers were convicted, Jarius Brown is still seeking damages to cover the medical expenses for serious ...

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Former La Plata County sheriff’s Cmdr. Edward Aber is accused of watching at least 117 inmates’ strip-search videos as many ...

Parents of missing baby Emmanuel plead not guilty to murder in a rare "no-body" case as the search for his remains continues.

The body of Amber Marie Schimmelpfenning, a missing 36-year-old mother of three who was declared the victim of a homicide, has been found, her father, Darwin ...