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# Prison

All time
Prisoners denied showers for 14 days due to Covid quarantine
3 Aug 2021
36.2k
70
'Prison security measures should respect human dignity': Review after solicitor says she was told to remove bra
7 Jul 2021
17.4k
19
Almost half of criminals released from prison re-offended within a year, new figures show
25 Jun 2021
14.1k
46
Nine pardoned Catalan leaders walk free from prison
23 Jun 2021
9.2k
5
1,200 inmates receive Covid vaccines as wider roll-out to prisons begins
16 Jun 2021
10.6k
25
Jeffrey Epstein guards who falsified prison records set to avoid jail
22 May 2021
29.1k
Prison watchdog questions use of handcuffs for escorting gravely ill prisoners to hospital
18 Apr 2021
19.3k
38
Woman jailed after being found with thousands of 'depraved' child abuse images
25 Mar 2021
63.0k
8
At least 75 inmates dead in Ecuador prison riots
24 Feb 2021
17.0k
2
Former Anglo CEO David Drumm released from prison
15 Feb 2021
68.0k
Ivana Bacik: Any trivialising of gender-based violence by the courts is unhelpful
Ivana Bacik
6 Feb 2021
16.8k
23
Covid-19 exposes 'unsafe' failures in prison service – report
26 Jan 2021
11.7k
13
HSE confirms prison nurses will be vaccinated as frontline healthcare workers - but timeline remains unclear
16 Jan 2021
13.1k
19
Man arrested after 'largest ever seizure' of prison contraband destined for Kinahan cartel inmates
Updated 17 Nov 2020
77.0k
47
There have been 8 deaths in prison custody to date this year, and 100 deaths in 10 years
10 Oct 2020
28.2k
28
Harry Maguire set for retrial after appeal against Greek court verdict is accepted
Updated 26 Aug 2020
11.7k
Woman becomes first confirmed Covid-19 case in Irish prison system
22 Aug 2020
40.2k
28
Fifty-five prisoners granted temporary release since start of March re-arrested
24 Jun 2020
26.8k
30
'Everyone had to play their part': How Ireland kept Covid-19 out of its prisons
10 Jun 2020
17.3k
24
Nine killed in Peru prison protest against overcrowded conditions during pandemic
28 Apr 2020
13.2k
4
'An agonising wait': Decision on Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release from prison delayed again
19 Apr 2020
20.5k
14
Harvey Weinstein transferred to maximum-security prison in upstate New York
19 Mar 2020
21.7k
25
Alcohol-free hand sanitiser given to prisoners over fears it would be used for 'moonshine'
16 Mar 2020
30.8k
37
Prisoners removed after spending night on roof of Mountjoy
24 Dec 2019
24.7k
39
Inspector of Prisons was refused entry to facility by officer who 'appeared to be intoxicated'
16 Dec 2019
44.0k
43
Man arrested after fellow inmate found strangled to death in Cloverhill Prison
24 Nov 2019
20.8k
Man dies at Cloverhill Prison after incident involving another prisoner
23 Nov 2019
40.5k
17
One of Britain’s worst paedophiles stabbed to death in prison
14 Oct 2019
49.1k
63
'Some of the generals wanted me executed and that sort of craic'
13 Oct 2019
42.3k
12
Isis views Ireland as 'somewhere to fundraise rather than attack'
2 Oct 2019
26.6k
52
US woman left to give birth alone in jail cell sues city of Denver
31 Aug 2019
30.7k
Woman who held pensioner as slave and forced her to sleep in outhouse jailed in England
30 Aug 2019
57.2k
28
Jeffrey Epstein signed a will two days before his suicide
20 Aug 2019
37.5k
26
Convicted child sex offender Tom Humphries released from Midlands Prison
16 Aug 2019
63.4k
124
Two prison guards put on leave after Jeffrey Epstein's death
13 Aug 2019
31.2k
9
Brazilian prisoner who tried to escape disguised as daughter found dead in his cell
6 Aug 2019
71.2k
23
Putin-critic Alexei Navalny sent back to prison after suspicious 'allergic reaction'
Updated 29 Jul 2019
28.3k
66
'He could have lost his eye': Prison officer injured in assault by inmate at Cloverhill
26 Jul 2019
15.7k
10
Drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in US prison
17 Jul 2019
20.2k
25
Over 355,000 hours of community service work carried out by offenders last year
17 Jun 2019
5.9k
11
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