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# Prison

All time
Carlos the Jackal fined for anti-Semitic insults aimed at prison officer
1 Apr 2014
12.9k
22
'4,000 people are doing time in Irish Prisons - 4,000 families are doing time outside'
31 Mar 2014
11.9k
58
Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law found guilty of conspiracy to kill Americans
26 Mar 2014
6.3k
51
Advice issued on using registered gas fitters after installer jailed for manslaughter
21 Mar 2014
11.0k
17
Column: There's a viral spread of increasingly restrictive laws curtailing human rights
Mary Lawlor
14 Mar 2014
67
22
Margaretta D'Arcy to be released from prison in ten days
12 Mar 2014
11.3k
65
Mandatory treatment for sex offenders "not a realistic option"
11 Mar 2014
8.2k
39
Drug-carrying drone discovered hovering outside Melbourne prison
11 Mar 2014
18.4k
24
Limerick prison still 'chronically overcrowded' despite report signalling improvements
5 Mar 2014
7.3k
50
12 arrested and 8 shotguns seized in garda operation targeting burglary gang
4 Mar 2014
20.8k
39
Professional bellydancer gets 13 years in jail for rape and sexual assault
28 Feb 2014
24.7k
19
Man who hacked British soldier to death sentenced to life in prison
26 Feb 2014
19.4k
70
Man found guilty after 'shocking' dog attack on four-year-old girl
24 Feb 2014
31.0k
78
Use of 23-hour solitary confinement has dropped by 76% in nine months
21 Feb 2014
6.3k
11
Pregnant teenager receives jail term after being gang-raped
20 Feb 2014
57.8k
141
Margaretta D'Arcy will get a prison visit from Gerry Adams today
12 Feb 2014
8.0k
169
'Peru 2' may soon be one as Reid's parents pay to bring her home
10 Feb 2014
76.1k
70
There are 62 republican prisoners being held at present in Irish prisons
9 Feb 2014
14.5k
63
Hundreds detained in Irish prisons each year over immigration issues
1 Feb 2014
7.4k
17
Prisoner can't resist selfie with marijuana plant he snuck into prison...
25 Jan 2014
3.3k
Gilmore: No problem with Sabina Higgins prison visit to Margaretta D'Arcy
21 Jan 2014
7.1k
37
New Cork prison will be "cramped and oppressive"
16 Jan 2014
10.6k
97
Four republican dissidents sentenced after guns and ammunition find
13 Jan 2014
8.9k
50
Eddie Irvine sentenced to six months in jail after Milan nightclub brawl
9 Jan 2014
46.0k
35
Escaped convict turned himself in because it was 'too cold'
8 Jan 2014
21.9k
24
'Serious incident' at UK prison involved 60 prisoners and lasted 5 hours
6 Jan 2014
12.6k
16
249 prisoners to be released from Irish jails over Christmas
23 Dec 2013
11.9k
63
Another Pussy Riot member has been freed in Russia after amnesty
23 Dec 2013
9.9k
38
‘Peru 2′ sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in jail each
17 Dec 2013
63.5k
223
Over half of those released from prison re-offend within three years
17 Dec 2013
4.0k
44
38 arrested for carrying out genital mutilation on girls as young as three
16 Dec 2013
11.6k
40
UK study reveals that one in four female prisoners self-harm
16 Dec 2013
3.9k
10
Iceland jails bank officials for Kaupthing fraud
13 Dec 2013
6.9k
50
Over 40 per cent on probation re-offend within three years
10 Dec 2013
3.3k
18
13 life sentence prisoners were recalled to prison between 2001-2012
6 Dec 2013
11.7k
38
Overcrowding at Dóchas women's prison has led to "tension throughout" the centre
3 Dec 2013
10.9k
65
Big increase in number of women being sent to jail
21 Nov 2013
8.6k
75
Texas LGBT jail inmates now protected under new policy
15 Nov 2013
9.5k
26
One murder, 112 assaults allegedly by people out on bail this year
15 Nov 2013
5.7k
61
End of an era: slopping out to officially end in Mountjoy this month
9 Nov 2013
22.9k
89
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