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# Prisons

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Opinion: Once again, we've heard a depressingly familiar tune from Ireland on human rights
Prison body wants a dedicated strategy for Travellers leaving prisons
Women prisoners are 'significantly more likely' to use drugs
Shatter orders urgent investigation into the recording of prisoner phone calls
Penal Reform Trust to Prison Service: Prisoners deserve an apology along with lawyers
Prison Service to apologise for recording over 2,800 phonecalls
Women's prison population one third over capacity
Use of 23-hour solitary confinement has dropped by 76% in nine months
64: The number of prisoners escaped since 1996 still at large
249 prisoners to be released from Irish jails over Christmas
902 prisoners abscond over 10 years - 58 are still at large
17 prisoners declined parole review in 2012
Column: Irish prisoners raising cattle for an African community feel a sense of atonement
Shatter responds to concerns about Irish prisons
Irish prison system 'over-reliant' on prolonged solitary confinement
36 per cent of prisoners in Irish jails serving at least five years
'Slopping out' to end in Mountjoy this year
Majority of criminals re-offend within three years
50 years ago, these last prisoners left Alcatraz forever
Fine Gael TDs on Twitter and free GP care : The week's news skewed
Prison officers: 'We can't deal with 16-year-olds - we're not child carers'
St Patrick's report positive - but says violence and gangs are still a problem
In numbers: the state of Ireland’s prisons in 2011
Mental health services inadequate, prisons below standards - Amnesty
'Disturbing issues' uncovered by probe of St Patrick's youth institution
Almost 500 prisoners have absconded since 2008
Prisoners on temporary release will 'pose no risk to public' insists Shatter
Dramatic 45 per cent increase in numbers sent to prison
Prison officer 'slashed across face and hands with razor blades'
Temporary release of prisoners 'reduces risk to the community' - Shatter
Funding secured to end detention of children in adult prison
Prisoner has been on the run since 1995
GRA chief warns of 'risk to public safety' over escaped prisoner incident
Garda killer had escaped from same prison before