A PROBE is underway after a plot to smuggle lethal shivs into Mountjoy Prison was foiled last week. The Irish Sun can reveal ...

Ireland's prison system is "overwhelmed, overstretched and inhumane", according to a new report by The Irish Penal Reform Trust.

Irish authorities were able to resolve an inmate hostage hours-long standoff at a prison with a chocolate candy bar. The ordeal at the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise on Saturday began with one inmate ...

Overcrowding has resulted deteriorating conditions for inmates, reaching the threshold of inhumane and degrading', Irish Penal Reform Trust warns ...

IRELAND’S children’s prison will get just EIGHT new places over the next five years, we can reveal. This is despite teen criminals being released early from Oberstown Detention Centre due to a ...

A virtual tour of Ireland’s largest Prison, which aims to inform the public, and reduce anxiety among incoming prisoners and their visitors, is now known to have cost over €60,000 to develop and ...

Chocolate can do great things. The latest amazing attribute of the sweet treat: peacekeeper. Media outlets in Ireland, including the Irish Post, report that a five-hour standoff with hostages at ...

The Irish Prison Service is considering the temporary release of more than 200 inmates across the country as Covid-19 outbreak fears intensify. The Prison Service would only release prisoners who are ...

In the course of her research, Louise Brangan has received funding from the ESRC, Fulbright Commission, British Academy and Leverhulme. Ireland has formally opened the new women’s wing of the Limerick ...

An investigation is underway after an Irish inmate took part in an interview with a true-crime YouTuber based in the UK. The prisoner, who cannot be named as he is currently in the courts facing ...