# prisons - Yesterday’s News
These archive pictures show the final working hours of one of the world’s most notorious jails.
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# prisons - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Breaking via The Mire wire: Leinster House goes wild photocopying arses, free GP care for healthy citizens, and FG TDs insult each other for Twitter practice.
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# prisons - Friday 3 May, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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The Prison Officers Association says members need special training to deal with underage inmates – and they don’t get it.
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# prisons - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
The report said that housing 16 and 17 year olds continues to be a challenge at the prison.
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# prisons - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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The cost of detaining a prisoner in Irish jails fell last year – but to what?
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# prisons - Thursday 24 May, 2012
In its annual report on the state of human rights in the world, the organisation also said that the UN Security Council had not shown the same courage as those who had participated in the Arab Spring.
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# prisons - Tuesday 22 May, 2012
The Inspector of Prisons is undertaking a “far reaching” inquiry into the institution, where 16 and 17-year-olds are held.
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# prisons - Thursday 10 May, 2012
Thirty-three prisoners are currently listed as absconded, Minister for Justice and Equality Alan Shatter said this week.
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# prisons - Tuesday 1 May, 2012
Justice Minister Alan Shatter was responding to concerns over a new scheme that will see 150 prisoners on temporary release at any one time.
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# prisons - Monday 30 April, 2012
However, the number of prison staff has actually fallen over the last five years.
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# prisons - Friday 27 April, 2012
The Prison Officers Association is warning that overcrowding in prisons makes attacks on other prisoners and prison officers more likely.
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# prisons - Thursday 26 April, 2012
Good morning! Hope you’re not too wet out there…
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# prisons - Sunday 8 April, 2012
# prisons - Friday 6 April, 2012
Nine things to know this morning…
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# prisons - Monday 2 April, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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The €50m funding will mean the end of housing underage offenders in St Patrick’s Institution, which is an adult prison.
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# prisons - Thursday 29 March, 2012
There are 19 inmates on the run from open prisons in Ireland. Only 6 per cent of our total prison population is in an open centre. Do we need them at all? You decide…
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Joint Oireachtas Committee hears that there are 19 prisoners unlawfully at large – one for 17 years.
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Damien McCarthy condemned the reasoning behind the transfer of a convicted garda killer to a low-security prison – saying that lax adherence to established standards was resulting in a risk to public safety.
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More details have emerged in the case of Martin McDermott, who was serving time for the manslaughter of a garda when he escaped from a Cavan prison earlier this month.
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# prisons - Friday 16 March, 2012
The Garda Representative Association has also called for tougher sentences for certain murders, such as the killing of gardaí.
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# prisons - Thursday 15 March, 2012
Our prisons have become pressure cookers, bursting at the seams and increasingly difficult to police. Eoin O’Carroll sets out new ideas for reform.
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A report by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice shows the extent of overcrowding and drug-use in Irish prisons. There was an average of 800 people in prison per day in 1970 – this grew to 4,290 in 2010.
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# prisons - Monday 12 March, 2012
A report by the Inspector of Prisons earlier this year had found that Limerick Prison was not fit for purpose and needed a ‘regime change’.
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# prisons - Wednesday 29 February, 2012
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter says that building a new prison facility in Cork could comprehensively tackle overcrowding and the ongoing practice of ‘slopping out’.
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# prisons - Saturday 28 January, 2012
In today’s 9 at 9: Millionaires and their income tax, Facebook, and a NAMA building is occupied…
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# prisons - Tuesday 17 January, 2012
The Minister for Justice has expressed “shock” at a report on conditions at Limerick Prison, which highlights issues of overcrowding, cleanliness and hygiene, staffing, physical conditions and repairs.
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# prisons - Thursday 5 January, 2012
Gardaí have been notified after the two inmates failed to return to their institutions.
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# prisons - Thursday 22 December, 2011
The majority of the prisoners come from lower security institutions.
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# prisons - Monday 12 December, 2011
Our prisons are bursting, and yet we continue to lock more people up. To keep communities safe we need a serious rethink, writes Liam Herrick.
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# prisons - Tuesday 29 November, 2011
The number of prisoners on 23-hour lock up has dropped from 250 in January 2010 to 178 this year. However, the Irish Penal Reform Trust says this number is still too high.
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# prisons - Monday 21 November, 2011
The 2010 reports on Ireland’s prisons reveal the issues that are affecting staff and prisoners – from smuggled mobile phones to gangs.
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# prisons - Monday 7 November, 2011
There are currently almost 5,000 prisoners in Irish prisons, and the Irish Penal Reform trust says the Government should focus on making prison conditions better: not building more prisons.
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Nine things to know this morning…
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# prisons - Sunday 2 October, 2011
# prisons - Thursday 25 August, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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# prisons - Monday 20 June, 2011
Horrified relatives struggled to contain their emotions as they watched the violence unfold.
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# prisons - Monday 6 June, 2011
United Nations Committee against Torture recommends that a mechanism should be astablished to facilitate criminal complaints. It also calls the practice of slopping out “inhumane”.
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