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The services are available to all in the prison system.
Ten Irish people were sent to prison in the US this year, there were seven new cases in Australia and six in France.
The man told gardaí he “flipped” because the woman accused him of being “needy”.
‘It is a mark of true sincerity, therefore, for politicians to take up unpopular causes like that of Leon Wright,’ writes author Frankie Gaffney.
Concern has been expressed about treatment of the 28-year-old by prison staff.
Many repeat offenders were placed in prison following the operation.
The man received serious stab wounds and cuts to the face.
It’s understood that the two men left mannequins in their beds.
The president of the Philippines has been waging a bloody war on drugs.
The four-week trial recalled years of sexual abuse against the young girls in Rotherham.
The four day trial heard that Brian Veale stabbed Graham Johnson in the kitchen of Cork Prison.
Brian Veale has pleaded not guilty to murdering Graham Johnson at Cork Prison.
Frontline employees have to work in very difficult environments.
The bloodshed began when inmates of one wing of the Agricola de Monte Cristo prison broke into another wing.
The incident happened this evening at about 5.30pm.
Patrick Irwin is serving at 10-year term at Mountjoy Prison.
Inmates at Luzira have access to spiritual seminars and counselling.
Kevin Mallon from THG is due to give new testimony to police today. Both men deny any wrongdoing.
He has been in jail since his arrest on 17 August.
The squatters had been told to leave the premises by midnight last night.
Many people witnessed prisoners dying in custody and some described being held in cells alongside dead bodies.
He was given 20 life sentences in 1981.
The ex-officer, Stephen Rankin, shot 18-year-old William Chapman in the face and chest outside a Wal-Mart store last year.
In total, 10% of the prison population was out last Wednesday.
Criticisms are contained in a report into the death of a 65-year-old man at the prison last year.
Manning’s legal team say she will be kept under close observation for several weeks.
The drugs were posted into Northern Ireland from Spain and then re-distributed across the North and in Britain.
“He took advantage of this friendship and put his victims through an awful ordeal.”
A visiting committee described the situation in Cloverhill prison in particular as a “logistical nightmare”.
Fabienne Kabou had blamed the killing on “witchcraft”.
The prisoner, a drug abuser, has since died.
An inmate who held another hostage in a cell was given a three and a half year sentence today.
The man was the subject of threats when it emerged he was on compassionate leave.
Young adults are overrepresented in the prison population.
The prison was intended only as a temporary response to increased criminality during the famine, but remained open for 36 years.
Ibrahim Halawa’s trial is expected to take place at the end of June, nearly three years after he was imprisoned.
The judge said he was imposing the prison term “to send a message” to drivers.
She has been taken to the Dóchas Centre women’s prison where she is expected to spend ten days.