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#irish-prison-service

Irish prison strategy aims to tackle threat of drones but overcrowding remains major challenge

Sep 20th 2019, 8:54 AM 9,266 23

#STRATEGIC PLAN
Convicted child sex offender Tom Humphries released from Midlands Prison

Aug 16th 2019, 11:57 AM 62,044 124

#RELEASED
Evidence to suggest tracking device was placed on private car of prison officer, report finds

Jul 25th 2019, 5:39 PM 15,145 4

#IRISH PRISON SERVICE
Opinion: I want to change the way society sees ex-offenders so I organised a TEDx Talk in Mountjoy

Apr 6th 2019, 7:30 AM 16,658 42

#OPINION
Prisoner escapes from custody while receiving treatment at St James's Hospital in Dublin

Mar 20th 2019, 1:45 PM 88,546 33

#ESCAPED
Boy awarded €35,000 after contracting TB from dad who picked it up from prisoners at work

Feb 19th 2019, 2:35 PM 22,247 0

#IRISH PRISON SERVICE
Investigation into claims of 'unauthorised surveillance' in Irish prisons to finish in February

Jan 17th 2019, 6:11 AM 14,876 0

#WHISTLEBLOWER
Alleged use of tracking devices on cars of Irish prison officers to be probed by Inspector of Prisons

Nov 22nd 2018, 2:20 PM 14,169 0

#BUGGED
Search launched after prisoner escapes from Dublin courthouse

Nov 9th 2018, 7:52 PM 29,533 28

#PRISON BREAK
Irish Prison Service recruiting chaplains to 'encourage and support' inmates

Jul 29th 2018, 4:00 PM 13,488 49

#PASTORAL CARE
Prison service investigating two staff allegations about management practices

Jun 26th 2018, 6:00 AM 10,892 1

#PROTECTED DISCLOSURE
'Prison is for dangerous criminals': Drop in numbers sent to prison for non-payment of fines

Jun 25th 2018, 3:37 PM 10,351 31

#JUSTICE
Over 2,000 people jailed for non-payment of fines last year

Jun 8th 2018, 6:15 AM 18,022 26

#COURT FINES
Man accused of murdering estranged wife Joanne Lee found dead in Mountjoy Prison

Apr 12th 2018, 9:57 AM 70,781 8

#RANELAGH
Prison guards are cracking down on moonshine in Irish prisons

Apr 2nd 2018, 5:00 PM 17,276 18

#LAST OF THE SLAMMER WINE
Up to 25% of Mountjoy Prison inmates being put in solitary confinement for their own protection

Jan 18th 2018, 10:14 AM 13,950 78

#MOUNTJOY PRISON
142 prisoners will be granted temporary release over Christmas

Dec 22nd 2017, 12:13 PM 8,266 20

#IRISH PRISON SERVICE
Irish Prison Service paid out €500k in loans to inmates over three years

Nov 14th 2017, 4:14 PM 31,789 85

#INTEREST FREE
Man found dead in cell at Cloverhill Prison

Oct 11th 2017, 6:44 PM 17,531 36

#CLOVERHILL
Prisoner was not checked for over two hours on night he died

Sep 19th 2017, 3:59 PM 23,723 25

#PORTLAOISE
An average of 12 phones are seized in Irish prisons every week

Aug 31st 2017, 10:01 AM 9,164 48

#CONTRABAND
Families of murder victims have 'met killers on the street' after not being told of release

Aug 20th 2017, 7:00 AM 13,608 19

#JUSTICE
'Prisoners have a very basic human need for contact'

Jul 9th 2017, 7:00 AM 12,591 33

#SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Large drop in number of people being jailed for non-payment of fines

May 15th 2017, 12:48 PM 12,584 36

#A FINE THING
Inmate who escaped from open prison in 2015 returned to custody

Mar 29th 2017, 12:37 PM 13,176 0

#LOUGHAN HOUSE
Man accused of killing Gareth Hutch stabbed in Mountjoy

Mar 28th 2017, 1:22 PM 26,337 0

#ASSAULT
Inmates in Irish prisons will soon have access to e-cigarettes

Feb 26th 2017, 7:00 AM 10,020 30

#QUITTING
Irish prisons paid €3 million in 'pocket money' to inmates last year

Jan 23rd 2017, 7:33 AM 15,987 50

#JAILHOUSE DOSH
Prisoner facing discipline after breaking out onto roof of Cloverhill prison

Oct 6th 2016, 8:25 PM 9,310 23

#ROOFTOP BREAKOUT
Treatment of sick inmates in focus after death by heart attack of 65-year-old prisoner

Jul 23rd 2016, 7:15 AM 16,000 50

#DISCRIMINATION
Search begins for new officers with "tolerance and humanity" to work in Irish prisons

Jul 8th 2016, 11:35 AM 30,152 100

#RECRUITMENT DRIVE
Prisoner left out in prison yard overnight alleges discrimination against Travellers

Jul 5th 2016, 1:02 PM 25,311 0

#CORK PRISON
'They think you are a poof and they prey on you'

Feb 2nd 2016, 10:55 AM 18,269 72

#LGBT IN PRISON
When life means life: 'All I went for was a few bob. I hadn't it in mind at all to kill her'

Jan 10th 2016, 10:00 PM 60,905 39

#LIFERS
84% of sex offenders released this year haven't completed treatment programmes

Nov 20th 2015, 10:52 AM 7,008 26

#RELEASED
Rehabilitation services: What exactly is being offered and how many prisoners are using them

Oct 31st 2015, 7:45 AM 7,547 10

#EDUCATION
'I've seen people being sliced, being kicked around in prison - it's all because of drugs'

Jul 7th 2015, 5:10 PM 18,068 18

#ADDICTION
These are just some of the lethal homemade weapons seized in Irish prisons

Jul 6th 2015, 12:47 PM 21,122 38

#DANGEROUS
Prisoner spent two hours on roof of Cloverhill today after retrieving drugs

Jun 30th 2015, 10:11 PM 19,639 49

#PRISONS
Inmates in Mountjoy formed pyramid in yard to help prisoner reach drugs

Jun 10th 2015, 1:30 PM 28,638 53

#STRANDED