MELBOURNE – 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 to “enjoy ...

Women prisoners have been forced to share a unit with men at the notoriously overcrowded jail in the resort and pearling town ...

The media spotlight is once again on the issue of prison conditions, as sentencing looms for Erin Patterson, convicted for three murders after serving a beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms.

An Australian woman who murdered three elderly relatives with a poisoned beef Wellington has been sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years. Erin Patterson, 50, was found guilty ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — 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 ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — 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 ...