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After almost six hours of labour, Diana Sanchez gave birth to a boy.
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After almost six hours of labour, Diana Sanchez gave birth to a boy.
The victim, now aged 74, has learning difficulties.
Lawyers representing women who claim they were sexually abused by Epstein have vowed to go after his assets.
The former sports journalist was jailed for the sexual exploitation and defilement of a child.
The convicted paedophile was found dead in a prison cell in New York at the weekend.
Clauvino da Silva tried to walk out the front door of a Rio de Janeiro jail at the weekend.
Alexei Navalny is serving a 30-day sentence for calling a mass protest in Moscow.
The Prison Officers Association has called for the provision of protective equipment like batons and pepper spray for staff.
Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February.
The 2018 annual report of the Probation Service is published today.
Jake Patterson (21) pleaded guilty to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping.
Manning was jailed in early March for refusing to testify in a grand jury investigation .
The POA said prison officers are dealing with assaults on a daily basis.
The prison population in Ireland has seen the number of inmates rise by hundreds in Irish prisons over the past three years.
Paul Johnston was serving a life sentence when he absconded from prison in 2017.
Early indications suggest faulty wiring was the cause of the blaze.
The raid also left prisoner Michael Chiolo’s visiting partner fatally wounded.
“It is not just someone banging on about the law for an hour, there are lesson plans in place.”
The prison service paid two private security companies over a two-year period.
There are currently 650 members of the Defence Forces serving in 14 countries.
The pair were members of the banned group National Action.
The unit has the ability to house nine criminals.
The victim’s brother told the court that his family took no comfort knowing that Michael O’Dwyer died “afraid and alone”.
21-year-old Filippo Lombardi has been charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on the 53-year-old Irishman.
The overall rate of suicide deaths has decreased in recent years.
He is serving life for the feud murder of Daithí Douglas.
She is serving a five-year jail sentence for alleged sedition – a charge she has always denied.
There are vacancies in a number of prisons including Mountjoy.
More than 2,000 people were sent to prison for failure to pay a court-imposed fine last year.
I think some people baulk a little when they hear reports of major improvements being made to prison conditions, and of resources being spent on education and training, writes Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan.
Drumm was yesterday sentenced for his part in a multi-billion euro bank fraud scheme.
The latest figures shows there has been a significant drop in the number of imprisonments following new legislation.
Kurdish journalist Nurcan Baysal is facing a three-year jail term for calling out the government of Recep Erdogan regarding atrocities committed on the Turkish/Syrian border.
The package was not recovered.
The judge noted that he was a man of considerable abilities but said getting away with crime wasn’t one of them.
Joanne Lee’s body was found in a flat in Ranelagh.
The Irish film explores the impact of prison on a young teenager, and was inspired by real-life stories.
The Menendez brothers are serving life in prison for the murder of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.
The case sparked a political firestorm when Boris Johnson told a parliamentary committee she was in Iran “training journalists”.
The woman stole the funds from a financial services firm to help keep her ill husband’s business afloat.