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# Prisoners

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Video shows inmates escaping from Canadian prison by helicopter
Prisoners can vote - so why don't they?
'They think you are a poof and they prey on you'
These are the countries that imprison the most foreigners
When life means life: 'All I went for was a few bob. I hadn't it in mind at all to kill her'
Whoops: Over 3,000 US prisoners mistakenly freed early
Ireland's most dangerous prisons: Around the country staff are working in constant danger
Gangs, drugs and violence: Documentary looks into life in Mountjoy Prison
Rehabilitation services: What exactly is being offered and how many prisoners are using them
Cloverhill inmates coaxed down from prison roof with snack boxes
Cloverhill riot: Prisoners injured, two climb onto roof
Manhunt underway for escaped prisoner
Sex offenders will be electronically tagged, just not yet
These are just some of the lethal homemade weapons seized in Irish prisons
President Higgins tells women prisoners: 'I never underestimate how difficult the time you spend here can be'
Prisoner stabbed in head with 'sharpened spoon' in serious condition
This TD thinks new prison visiting rules are "incredibly sinister"
Prisoners, parole and politics don't - and shouldn't - mix
'Irish prisons run smoothly on the goodwill of staff - that will end'
Prison officers vote on industrial action is "an opening salvo"
Derek Brockwell: Search for 'violent, hardened criminal' continues, as Minister orders full report
Melanie McCarthy-McNamara killer wins High Court case over solitary confinement
How many people are in prison in Ireland right now?
America will let this Muslim prisoner grow a beard
Bus carrying 12 prisoners falls from Texas overpass onto train tracks
Torture, abuse and a suspect's death: An RUC holding centre used during the Troubles
Almost 250 inmates in Irish prisons separated from general population
Tortured: ‘They called a doctor to check if they could continue without killing me’
There are currently 3,739 prisoners in Ireland - and we can't take many more
Ireland's prisons are getting more chaplains
Are prisoners being freed temporarily to relieve overcrowding?
Here's how many prisoners were given temporary release since 2009 ... and never came back
We've sent Romania a load of pregnant cows raised by prisoners
Opinion: If the USA practises torture, then so could any other country
Timeline to end 'slopping out' in prisons needs to be set
Artist transforms Alcatraz into tribute to political prisoners
Mountjoy unit with 'air of neglect and decay' closed after damning report
Mother of killed James Foley felt like "annoyance" to US government
From white-collar criminals to murderers: Rare glimpse inside women's prison
Closure of St Patrick’s Institution is 'unfinished' as 8 boys remain locked up