# prison - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
Stuart Hazell unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty yesterday, admitting to killing the 12-year-old before stuffing her body in an attic.
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# prison - Monday 13 May, 2013
Former UK cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were released from prison this morning and have to wear electronic tags.
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# prison - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
Good morning! Here are the nine things you need to know as you kick off your (rainy) Wednesday morning.
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# prison - Friday 26 April, 2013
He has been moved to a prison medical centre, reports say.
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# prison - Monday 22 April, 2013
Bruno Mars and Hugh Grant are a bit bolder than you’d expect.
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# prison - Saturday 13 April, 2013
# prison - Saturday 6 April, 2013
The 50-year-old actor was jailed for tax evasion charges.
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# prison - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
Louis Taylor was convicted of lighting a fire in a US hotel in 1970 which killed 29 people. After 42 years of maintaining his innocence, he has been released.
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# prison - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
The committee also recommended that sentences of six months or less for non-violent crimes be replaced with community service orders.
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Rapporteur Senator Ivana Bacik and Chairman David Stanton will publish the report later this morning.
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# prison - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Amnesty International has called for a UN commission of inquiry to investigate suspected human rights violations.
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# prison - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Mossad agent Ben Zygier was identified by Australian media as Prisoner X, who was found hanged in his isolation cell in an Israeli prison.
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# prison - Monday 18 February, 2013
A new documentary, to be shown tonight, gained unprecedented access to two of Ireland’s prisons over an entire year.
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# prison - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# prison - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
A search of the drug dealer’s cell at Portlaoise Prison uncovered mobile phones, SIM cards and notebooks with details of distribution.
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# prison - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The Department of Justice was responding to a report published today claiming Ireland facilitated the CIA’s rendition programme.
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# prison - Friday 1 February, 2013
Figures released to RTÉ under the Freedom of Information Act show 20 people are at large from open centres since last year.
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An average of 20 people a day were jailed for non-payment of fines last year – despite moves to reduce the figures.
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# prison - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Breivik, who is serving a 21-year jail sentence for killing 77 people, has complained about being kept in isolation for too long.
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# prison - Saturday 26 January, 2013
The government said the riot was set off after inmates at the Uribana prison rebelled against prison authorities who had launched a sweep of the facility in search of illicit weapons.
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# prison - Thursday 24 January, 2013
Shane Rogers took his own life in a cell at Cloverhill courthouse, despite being on suicide watch.
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# prison - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
The amendments have been described as a “major step forward” by Justice Minister Alan Shatter.
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# prison - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
The animal was nabbed while sneaking a phone and saws to a convict in Sao Paulo.
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# prison - Thursday 3 January, 2013
The bankrupt Cavan businessman, formerly Ireland’s richest man, has completed a nine-week sentence.
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Minister Alan Shatter is expected to introduce laws to increase monitoring of sex offenders, but should they be tagged after serving their sentence?
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# prison - Friday 28 December, 2012
The former billionaire was released on Monday on compassionate grounds, to spend time with his family over Christmas.
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# prison - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
There’s still a long way to go before it ends completely but the number of prisoners forced to slop out at Mountjoy is at the lowest level in years.
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# prison - Monday 24 December, 2012
The businessman is serving a nine-week sentence and was released to spend time with family over Christmas.
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# prison - Friday 21 December, 2012
The Department of Justice said the prisoners being released are nearing the end of their sentences and most of them are in lower security institutions.
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Materials include portraits, documents relating to the degradation of his knighthood and touching letters to his family in the final days before his execution.
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# prison - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
Maria Alyokhina gives detailed account of her prison experience in Urals mountains.
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# prison - Friday 14 December, 2012
Over the past year, Samaritans recorded 1,100 formal contacts within the six prisons in its Listener Scheme, an 83 per cent increase on 2011.
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# prison - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
The convicted rapist is shown talking to a number of women with a “very close pal” of his in the show which airs tonight.
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# prison - Monday 19 November, 2012
The Irish Penal Reform Trust has made a number of recommendations about the rights and needs of families of prisoners.
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# prison - Monday 12 November, 2012
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# prison - Thursday 8 November, 2012
The man who calls himself Mark Bassely Youssef has lied about his identity and caused harm to others, including the film’s cast and crew.
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# prison - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Seán Quinn has spent the first night of his nine-week sentence for contempt of court in Mountjoy Prison.
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The nine stories you need to know this morning.
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# prison - Friday 2 November, 2012
Here’s all the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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