Sitting in a room in Wheatfield Prison on Tuesday, wearing a bright blue T-shirt labelled “Listener” in gold stitching, he ...

SCHEMING Amy McAuley touted for autistic clients as a “music therapist” on an Irish website. The caged conwoman, 36 — who is ...

A BAKERY run by inmates at Mountjoy Prison at a cost of €660,000 a year is being shut to save cash. The ground-breaking ...

Instead, Ms Ní Mhurchú was outraged because a small cohort of prisoners on temporary release were classed as violent ...

He found that ongoing overcrowding and poor healthcare had contributed to a 50 per cent increase in prison deaths last year. He described conditions – which require many prisoners to sleep on ...

A social media user claimed on X, formerly Twitter, that “61% of all prisoners in Ireland are foreign nationals”. The post also quoted figures which it claimed are from September 1 “this year” that ...

The number of foreign prisoners jailed in Ireland has increased by 222 inmates in less than two years. Over a 19-month period from January 2024 until the end of August this year, the number of non ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background Preventing transmission of COVID-19 within prisons is both important and challenging. The confined conditions in prisons can ...

The Irish High Court has ordered the release of Enoch Burke, the Irish schoolteacher who has been incarcerated twice over the past two years. Burke has spent overall more than 400 days in prison ...

The Justice Committee has recommended that provisions allowing for the use of pepper spray be dropped from the Criminal Law ...

The Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been returned to prison by the High Court in Dublin. Mr Justice Cregan said that Mr Burke and members of his family had engaged in a "deliberate, sustained and ...