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

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 ...

In response to a parliamentary question from Fine Gael TD Barry Ward, Minister O’Callaghan stated: "The Irish Prison Service must accept into custody all people committed to prison by the Courts.” ...

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

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 ...

Another factor in the delay in the report is a decision to widen its scope to include “supports for gender diversity in the prison environment more broadly”, the Irish Prison Service (IPS ...

The rise in disorder comes after a prison officer in Mountjoy was slashed across the face by a prisoner on February 1 ...

A scammer posed as the Metropolitan Police in a bizarre fraud to try to get a decorated Irish dance teacher framed and ...

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

The discovery of so-called ‘zombie spiders’ in a network of caves that lie beneath an Irish prison has caught the attention of staff there. Loughan House open prison in Co Cavan is built on ...