# prisons - Monday 14 December, 2015
# Repeat Offenders
# Repeat Offenders
Study finds most prisoners are convicted of new offences within months of their release.
# prisons - Tuesday 1 December, 2015
# South Africa
# South Africa
It comes as a South African appeals court prepares to rule on whether he should be sent back to prison.
# prisons - Friday 20 November, 2015
# Leeds
# Leeds
Vicky Thompson had reportedly requested to be transferred to a female jail.
# prisons - Tuesday 17 November, 2015
# Cloverhill
# Cloverhill
An anti-torture committee has raised serious concerns about conditions in Irish prisons.
# prisons - Wednesday 4 November, 2015
# Criminals
# Criminals
“This is the problem – the kind of control these people have over the general population.”
# prisons - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
# Prisons
# Prisons
It comes after inmates formed a pyramid to help a prisoner get on the roof of Mountjoy prison earlier this month.
# prisons - Monday 11 May, 2015
# Review Time
# Review Time
The United States is up for its four-year review.
# prisons - Saturday 9 May, 2015
# Portlaoise
# Portlaoise
It’s the second death of a prisoner in 24 hours.
# prisons - Sunday 5 April, 2015
# Banged Up
# Banged Up
Two are over capacity and four are almost there.
# prisons - Thursday 19 March, 2015
# Contraband
# Contraband
Nearly half of those were in Mountjoy Prison.
# prisons - Wednesday 11 March, 2015
# Work To Rule
# Work To Rule
There have been a number of attacks on officers this year.
# prisons - Thursday 5 March, 2015
Ben Carson has since walked back his claims.
# prisons - Tuesday 17 February, 2015
# Prison Life
# Prison Life
The training and continuous development of prison staff is one aspect that will be reviewed in a major new audit.
# prisons - Saturday 7 February, 2015
# Prison Officers
# Prison Officers
The Irish Prison Officers’ Association said the initiatives announced this week are nothing new.
# prisons - Saturday 31 January, 2015
# Prison Cell-Phone
# Prison Cell-Phone
That’s after 728 were confiscated last year.
# prisons - Thursday 22 January, 2015
# Banged Up
# Banged Up
And how are they being trained for life outside?
# prisons - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
# SCOTUS
# SCOTUS
The nine justices acknowledged the validity of prison officials’ security concerns — that inmates could hide weapons or other contraband inside their whiskers.
# prisons - Tuesday 23 December, 2014
# Sex Cells
# Sex Cells
“Sex is a natural thing,” says Wheatfield Prison governor Colm Bartley
# prisons - Friday 19 December, 2014
# Children
# Children
Young people have the highest rates of reoffending, but they also have the greatest capacity for change – scientific evidence proves this.
# prisons - Monday 17 November, 2014
# Irish Prisons
# Irish Prisons
Fianna Fáil believes that temporary release is being used to ease overcrowding in some prisons.
# prisons - Tuesday 4 November, 2014
# Contraband
# Contraband
The search was based on intelligence gathered.
# prisons - Thursday 9 October, 2014
# Inspector Of Prisons
# Inspector Of Prisons
The Inspector of Prisons has criticised the lack of accountability among prison officers.
# prisons - Thursday 18 September, 2014
# Industrial Non-relations
# Industrial Non-relations
The officers claim staffing levels are dangerously low.
# prisons - Sunday 14 September, 2014
# Prisons
# Prisons
The Inspector of Prisons had said prisoners in the unit were inactive and the unit was ‘dirty’during his visits.
# prisons - Friday 12 September, 2014
# Prisons
# Prisons
The deaths occurred between January 2012 and June 2014.
# prisons - Thursday 11 September, 2014
# Young Offenders
# Young Offenders
The schools are on the same campus but are to be brought under one director.
# prisons - Wednesday 27 August, 2014
# Prisons
# Prisons
Marius Sarzynski was found by prison staff last night.
# prisons - Monday 18 August, 2014
# Overcrowded
# Overcrowded
Annual reports from five prison visiting committees were published today.
# prisons - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
# Not Good Enough
# Not Good Enough
Ireland’s appearance before the UN Human Rights Committee was disappointing: we have not made the changes recommended four years ago.
# prisons - Monday 19 May, 2014
# Prison
# Prison
The Irish Penal Reform Trust wants ethnic monitoring in prison
# prisons - Thursday 10 April, 2014
# Prisons
# Prisons
Heroin use among prisoners was at 11 per cent last month.
# prisons - Wednesday 2 April, 2014
# Prisoners
# Prisoners
The minister has charged the the Inspector of Prisons to carry out the investigation.
# Phone Recording
# Phone Recording
The Irish Penal Reform Trust have also questioned how the issue of phone recording could remain hidden for four years.
# Prisons
# Prisons
The Prison Service believes that another 1,000 calls relate to prisoners who are no longer in custody.
# prisons - Friday 7 March, 2014
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
Poor living conditions and substandard visiting conditions in state’s two female prisons.
# prisons - Friday 21 February, 2014
# Prison
# Prison
Irish prisons are attempting to limit the use of restrictive regimes.
# prisons - Monday 10 February, 2014
# Prison Break
# Prison Break
The Irish Prison Service is in charge of prisoners, but if they abscond gardaí are informed.
# prisons - Monday 23 December, 2013
# Temporary Release
# Temporary Release
Just over 6 per cent of Ireland’s prison population will be given varying periods of release from jail over the festive period.
# prisons - Tuesday 17 December, 2013
# Prisons
# Prisons
Four prisoners were recently recaptured – including one who had absconded in 2002.
# prisons - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
# Prisons
# Prisons
The annual Parole Board review for 2012 was published today.
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