Prisons

WA prisoners are being subjected to "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment" because the state government has allowed prisons to become "almost fundamentally broken", according to the Inspector of Custodial Services. 

When Tammy Shipley felt herself sliding into psychosis, she made a heartbreaking decision: She walked into a police station and asked to be arrested, believing prison would keep her safe. Here's what happened next.

A man has died in a maximum security prison days after driving his car at police officers, narrowly missing them, before crashing into a police station in Western New South Wales. 

A 35-year-old inmate at Victoria's Fulham Correctional Centre died of a drug overdose after consuming drugs smuggled into the jail, a coronial investigation has found.

After three months on remand, a teen who was refused bail on a Mildura home invasion charge has been released.

Queensland Corrective Services say the drone was carrying illicit drugs, syringes and a mobile phone.

The family of a man who was left to die alongside his severely injured brother and father after a hit-and-run crash, say they will appeal the "light" sentence handed to the man who was behind the wheel.

The Tasmanian government says Ashley Youth Detention Centre could become a minimum-security adult prison and "agriculture-based prison rehab and training facility".

The possible release of wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay next year could be pushed back by up to a decade under proposed changes to Queensland's parole laws.

Corrections officials in Tennessee halt an inmate's execution by lethal injection after medical staff repeatedly fail to find a vein.

A man died while in the custody of Queensland's most crowded police watch house. The police union says the bottleneck is being caused by outdated prison service work practices.

A crackdown in Iran drove a surge in the number of people executed worldwide in 2025, but China remains the "leading executioner," human rights group Amnesty International says.

The Public Service Association is calling for urgent and immediate security upgrades after a stolen car allegedly involved in a shooting was seen at the Yatala Labour Prison in the days before the incident.

Inmates at a maximum-security prison in western NSW have built a steel bull sculpture out of 450 parts to help support their families.

An Illawarra woman stabbed multiple times by her mother-in-law has told a court she continues to be haunted by images of the roadside attack. 

Corey Desmond Devree died when he was left alone for extended periods of time at the prison's paint workshop.

The Queensland man's escape triggered a month-long manhunt that ended when he was found at a remote campsite near a rainforest.

The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report is being prepared for the coroner. Fourteen Indigenous people have died in Australian prisons this year.

Outback Wrangler star Matt Wright has served five months in a Darwin prison, revealing he was not released in time for the birth of his third child.

The notorious Unit 18, a makeshift youth detention facility within the adult Casuarina Prison, has sat empty for at least a week while other WA prisons are bursting at the seams.