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Last year
2023
Irish Penal Reform Trust express 'grave concern' as bed capacity reaches 100% across prison estate
Updated 3 Feb 2023
10.3k
19
All time
Opinion: Children with parents in prison are silently serving sentences of their own this Christmas
Saoirse Brady
23 Dec 2022
13.7k
27
Prison service facing 'unprecedented challenge' as it manages three Covid-19 outbreaks
18 Nov 2021
10.4k
9
A conviction for €4 worth of cannabis 'just defies logic', say campaigners
22 May 2021
50.9k
'Most unfortunate case': Central Mental Hospital staff engaged in standoff with gardaí over mentally ill man's admittance
23 Mar 2021
63.8k
9
Covid-19 exposes 'unsafe' failures in prison service – report
26 Jan 2021
11.7k
13
Central Mental Hospital is at full capacity, prisoners with severe conditions wait 120 days for transfer
25 Oct 2019
17.5k
18
Report calls for an end to solitary confinement in Irish prisons
2 Feb 2018
9.2k
49
'People we recruit from prison are on average more loyal, more honest and stay with us for longer'
1 Oct 2017
34.3k
20
'Prisoners have a very basic human need for contact'
9 Jul 2017
13.0k
31
'They think you are a poof and they prey on you'
2 Feb 2016
19.6k
72
Community service: 'Cheaper than jail and makes society more safe'
24 Aug 2014
7.5k
20
The UN says Ireland's prisons are 'inhuman'
16 Jul 2014
9.0k
48
Over 8,000 people were imprisoned for non-payment of fines last year
11 Apr 2014
11.2k
103
And President Higgins's new adviser is...
20 Jan 2014
16.6k
43
Big increase in number of women being sent to jail
21 Nov 2013
8.6k
75
Irish prison system 'over-reliant' on prolonged solitary confinement
23 Jul 2013
5.6k
54
Moving inmates from St Pat's to adult prison "won't make one iota of difference"
4 Jul 2013
5.3k
22
Here's how 7,500 people went to jail for not paying fines in 2012
1 Feb 2013
13.2k
56
Report asks for more supports for children with parents in prison
19 Nov 2012
3.5k
32
Call for reforms to ensure "fair and transparent" early release of prisoners
23 Oct 2012
3.4k
38
25 people a day are being jailed for not paying fines
21 Jul 2012
6.9k
30
Dramatic 45 per cent increase in numbers sent to prison
30 Apr 2012
3.3k
47
Inspector's report finds Limerick Prison 'has made progress'
12 Mar 2012
1.8k
3
Government urged to address 'sub-standard' prison conditions
10 Oct 2011
745
23