Prison staff faced disciplinary sanctions for misconduct on 561 occasions during the same period, new figures show ...

The Irish Prison Service has spent more than €114,000 over the past three years on an empty site bought more than 20 years ...

Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS)’s long-awaited policy guidance on the appropriate housing of trans inmates has been delayed further, as officials struggle to identify a suitable model. Despite two ...

A prison officer has been hospitalised after being slashed in the face by a violent inmate in Mountjoy jail. The suspect for ...

While there were 5,101 people in prisons across the country on February 6, there were 11 per cent fewer beds (546) ...

So is it time to ramp up efforts to find an alternative to prison, particularly for those who are sentenced to a year or less ...

A lack of “basic care” for women in prisons causes such distress that some inmates resort to harming themselves, inspectors ...

Bills for the site continue to mount, with the Irish Prison Service spending around €40,000 a year on its upkeep.

State paid €29m for Thornton Hall site, now worth just €6.5m Thornton Hall prison site in North County Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren The Irish Prison Service has spent more than €114,000 over ...

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons.

A man convicted of the “Essex Boys” gangland murders can be released from prison, the Parole Board has said. Michael Steele ...