Prison bosses have asked ‘Breaking Bad’ businessman Nathan McDonnell for help with a proposal to turn an old jail block into ...

James O'Reilly, 77, had served just over two-and-a-half years of a 20-year sentence when he died of lung cancer at the ...

A lack of “basic care” for women in prisons causes such distress that some inmates resort to harming themselves, inspectors have warned amid rising levels of self-harm in jails. Inspectors ...

State paid €29m for Thornton Hall site, now worth just €6.5m Thornton Hall prison site in North County Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren The Irish Prison Service has spent more than €114,000 over ...

Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order after killing 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and 65-year-old ...

A spokesperson for the Irish Prison Service said that “any act of violence against prison staff is unacceptable” and the incident was reported to the gardaí. "Any criminal act carried out ...

John O’Brien (31) claimed he had been subject to a practice that violated his human rights and took the action against the Governor of Cork Prison, the Irish Prison Service, the Minister for ...

FAT’ Freddie Thompson’s chances of reuniting with his son behind bars is “slim to none”, senior sources have revealed. Brad ...