A Victorian lawyer says a "crisis" is unfolding in the state's jails, with justice facilities so crowded prisoners are instead being kept in police holding cells for up to a month. Mark Martoccia, ...

In an effort to stop the scourge of makeshift “teabacco” cigarettes in Victorian prisons, the government is set to introduce restrictions on nicotine lozenges.

Victorian Premier Ben Carroll said this week that if Labor wins the November state election, it will pilot a program that would see supervised, minimum-security incarcerated people working on roadside ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a lawsuit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breaches his human right ...

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence behind bars has launched a legal battle in the Supreme Court to overturn a ban ...