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

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

A RECORD number of lags are being recalled to prison in another damning sign that the justice system is failing. One in five ...

Like everyone who comes into contact with the criminal justice system, people with mental illness have rights and ...

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

THE prison officer slashed in the face after an attack in Mountjoy Prison has undergone plastic surgery. It’s understood he’s ...

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

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

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 ...

The number of inmates grew by 1,184 in the five weeks from December 30 and February 3, according to analysis by the PA news ...

Prisoners were given nearly €6.8 million in taxpayers’ cash over the past two years in the form of pocket money while they served time behind bars, the Irish Mirror can reveal. They received ...