# irish-prison-service - Friday 30 August, 2013
The prisoner was found unconscious in his cell late last night and was pronounced dead at the Mater Hospital.
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# irish-prison-service - Sunday 14 July, 2013
Alan Shatter says there’s no way that prisoners will be given open access to the internet – but they may be able to use it for educational resources.
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# irish-prison-service - Saturday 13 July, 2013
Just 17 women out of a total of 966 people, are serving sentences of more than seven years, mostly at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.
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# irish-prison-service - Saturday 6 July, 2013
After visiting Wheatfield, the Children’s Ombdusman Emily Logan said she felt reassured about the move.
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# irish-prison-service - Tuesday 4 June, 2013
John Dundon is due before the Special Criminal Court today charged in connection with the 2008 murder of rugby player Shane Geoghegan.
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# irish-prison-service - Thursday 3 January, 2013
The bankrupt Cavan businessman, formerly Ireland’s richest man, has completed a nine-week sentence.
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# irish-prison-service - Friday 21 December, 2012
The decision was taken following talks between the Attorney General, the Prison Service and the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter.
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# irish-prison-service - 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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# irish-prison-service - Monday 16 July, 2012
Authorities at Castlerea Prison in Co Roscommon discovered that the two men, both in their 20s, were unaccounted for this morning.
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# irish-prison-service - 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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# irish-prison-service - Wednesday 2 May, 2012
Minister says he doesn’t foresee any difficulties managing new programme with current probation staff levels.
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# irish-prison-service - Monday 30 April, 2012
However, the number of prison staff has actually fallen over the last five years.
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# irish-prison-service - Saturday 21 April, 2012
One prisoner absconded in 2004 while another escaped in 2010.
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# irish-prison-service - Friday 20 April, 2012
The inspector of prisons will investigate the death of every person in the custody of the Irish Prison Service.
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# irish-prison-service - Friday 13 April, 2012
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock…
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# irish-prison-service - Sunday 8 April, 2012
# irish-prison-service - Thursday 5 April, 2012
The inmate was found unconscious in his cell by prison officers
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# irish-prison-service - 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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# irish-prison-service - 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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# irish-prison-service - Thursday 5 January, 2012
Gardaí have been notified after the two inmates failed to return to their institutions.
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# irish-prison-service - Tuesday 6 September, 2011
The 25-year-old escaped while in the custody of two prison officers at Mid-Western Regional Hospital last week.
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# irish-prison-service - Tuesday 30 August, 2011
The man absconded from custody while being treated at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick yesterday.
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# irish-prison-service - Monday 29 August, 2011
GARDAÍ HAVE confirmed that a prisoner escaped from the Irish Prison Service’s custody this evening while being treated at Mid-Western Regional Hospital. Both the gardaí and the prison service are investigating the incident and are searching for the escaped man. RTÉ reports that the man, aged in his 20s, has a year left to serve. He was chased by two prison officers, but managed to escape.
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# irish-prison-service - Thursday 25 August, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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A couple of afternoon thundershowers
Max: 13 °C
Min: 4 °C
Variable clouds, a couple of t-showers
Max: 13 °C
Min: 5 °C
