The Irish Prison Service has spent more than €114,000 over the past three years on an empty site bought more than twenty years ago for a proposed ‘super-prison’ that was never built. The state ...

Bills for the site continue to mount, with the Irish Prison Service spending around €40,000 a year on its upkeep.

The 55-year-old inmate was extremely ill and unable to partake in any meaningful activities with his family by the time he was granted compassionate release, according to his widow ...

Picture: Moya Nolan Irish Prison Service (IPS) figures show there are 5,041 prisoners for 4,543 spaces across the country — with Limerick Female Prison at 152% capacity, followed by Dochas Women ...

Natasha O'Brien says her faith in the justice system has been restored after her attacker Cathal Crotty was handed prison ...

Spice is now becoming a serious issue in Irish prisons.” In a statement, the Irish Prison Service said: “The Irish Prison Service is committed to preventing the access of contraband ...

Dissident extortionist Nathan Kinsella is out of jail and driving around in a €30,000 Audi after telling a court that his ...

The prison has installed 114 bunk beds into small single cells and squeezed a further 82 mattresses onto floors of other ...

Caron McCaffrey also serves as President of EuroPris, the European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services ...