The pandemic bared the cruelty of prison in new ways. It was a lost opportunity to move away from mass incarceration.

Victorian prisons have been ordered to immediately prepare for an influx of inmates with the Allan government hoping to push ...

Built at a cost of more than $1 billion, an enormous new jail is empty more than two years after it was built – with millions spent on leaky ceilings and malfunctioning security.

A second bill would create a two-strike rule for someone accused of indictable offences. A person accused of committing an ...

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to a group of men with their faces covered, some carrying machetes, standing ...

Premier Jacinta Allan promises to "jolt the system" by banning machetes and enacting tougher bail laws for both young and ...

A woman who spent more than a decade behind bars for killing her two sons has been found dead just weeks after she was ...

Victorian jails have been ordered to get ready for an influx of prisoners, which they say could push the system to breaking point as the Allan government hopes to push tough new bail laws through ...