The jail, which closed in 2011, has faced barriers to development. Heritage advocates say its tourism potential is yet to be tapped into.

First opened in 1861, by the time it closed its doors in 1990 the Old Castlemaine Gaol had been a home for the insane, a reformatory school for boys, a hospital and a prison for the guilty, as ...

It housed some of Australia’s most infamous criminals before it closed in 2012 — and now ghosts of gangsters past are coming back to haunt the operators of Old Parramatta Gaol.

In Dubbo, news of a state hangman’s “kit”, consisting of 13 ropes, is enough to bring a smile to a museum curator’s face.

The Old Castlemaine Gaol, which in recent years has taken on new life as a quirky museum, is on the hunt for new creatively-minded custodians for its next chapter.

At Darlinghurst Gaol, there are tunnels, cells with rusting iron bars and a ghost story, all of which serve as a monument to crime and punishment in NSW between 1841 and 1921.

The first victim of the serial stabbing in Sydney, Australia, to be identified in news reports is Ash Good, a mother who died trying to save her nine-month-old baby, who was stabbed.

One of the men charged in the death of the 2018 killing of 16-year-old Sydney Garcia-Tovar has pleaded guilty, according to Butler County court documents. Jordan Spain, now 19, was just 14 when ...

Old Parramatta Gaol opened in 1842 as a final bid to build a jail in Sydney's west, after previous attempts were either burnt down or poorly constructed.