Ireland is failing to meet its obligations regarding hate crime, report says
The report was written as an alternative to previous hate crime reports submitted to the United Nations.
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The report was written as an alternative to previous hate crime reports submitted to the United Nations.
The law enables Ireland to ratify the Istanbul Convention.
95% of women in jail are committed for crimes such as shoplifting, failure to pay fines or handling stolen goods.
Kardashian was expected to meet aide Jared Kushner but in the end she met with President Donald Trump.
Living your life after 20 years spent outside society for a crime you didn’t commit is no joke says president of the Innocence Project of Iowa Brian Farrell.
The Fine Gael national conference has been talking crime and the economic recovery this morning.
It is planned that biological evidence could be kept for up to a year.
The number of women being sent to jail has increased by one third in the last three years, while the number of men being imprisoned has levelled off.
Report after report has documented the problems with St Patrick’s Institution – but now we need to actually deal with young offenders in a meaningful way.
A senior prison officer has warned that rival gangs will battle for dominance when the young offenders are moved to an adult prison.
A man was a given a suspended sentence last week after being found guilty of raping his wife’s sister when she was 14.
Figures released by the Department of Justice show 16,812 crimes were committed by those on bail in 2012.
Concerns have been raised that the Spent Convictions Bill will allow some people who have committed sexual offences to have their criminal record wiped.
The Spent Convictions Bill will strike out some convictions if the person has not been convicted again within a certain period.
The majority of the prisoners come from lower security institutions.
New figures reveal the thousands of people who have been jailed this year in Ireland for non-payment of fines.