Justice is not served when heinous crimes are downplayed by a parole date that indicates anything BUT life behind bars, writes Kylie Lang. Justice is not served when heinous crimes are downplayed by a ...

Bourke St killer James Gargasoulas will have the chance to seek parole after 46 years in jail. So why is it that his life sentence might not actually translate into a lifetime spent behind bars? In ...

As she faces growing public anger about the state’s law-and-order crisis, Ms Allan will on Wednesday announce a major pivot in Victoria’s approach to youth crime that will require children charged ...

Reserved for the most serious and atrocious crimes, a life sentence is supposed to be the pinnacle of punishment in Australia. Replacing the death penalty, which was only officially abolished in every ...

Since the abolition of the death sentence in 1973, the sentence of life imprisonment has long been Australia's most severe sanction under the nation's criminal law. In some states and territories, ...

Carlos McAdory shares his inspiring journey of being sentenced to 20 life terms and nearly two decades spent fighting an illegal sentence from prison. He reveals how he transformed his life while ...

What does it mean to complete a sentence of life in prison? One prisoner claims he has done it by serving time until the moment of his death — plus another four years since — and said it is well past ...

The 29-year-old white supremacist has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for last year’s Christchurch mosque attacks that killed 51 people and injured 40 – the country’s ...