# prisons - Thursday 19 April, 2018
Jim Mitchell, from the Prison Officers’ Association. has said the official figures “don’t reflect” the situation on the ground.
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# prisons - Monday 26 February, 2018
557 weapons were also seized in Irish prisons last year.
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# prisons - Thursday 31 August, 2017
The figure is up on last year, but way down on 2008 when about 42-a -week were seized.
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# prisons - Thursday 17 August, 2017
Last year alone, 435 weapons were recovered from inmates.
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# prisons - Sunday 16 July, 2017
They are also being turned into business hubs.
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# prisons - Monday 15 May, 2017
New legislation enacted last year is being heralded as the reason for the reduction in committals.
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# prisons - Friday 28 April, 2017
Prison officers outlined the dangers they face in their day-to-day jobs.
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# prisons - Monday 23 January, 2017
The Irish Prison Service has paid out over €27 million in pocket money to prisoners since 2009.
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# prisons - Monday 16 January, 2017
Officials said members of two drug gangs clashed violently after coming out of different parts of the prison.
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# prisons - Friday 16 December, 2016
Approximately 200 staff are supposed to work at the prison each day.
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# prisons - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
Prisoners found in possession of a mobile phone could be prosecuted.
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# prisons - Saturday 26 November, 2016
The Inspector of Prisons died earlier today.
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# prisons - Sunday 16 October, 2016
It is common knowledge that deaths from suicide and drug overdoses are common in Irish prisons, writes researcher Stephen Strauss-Walsh.
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# prisons - Wednesday 3 August, 2016
US president has now commuted 562 sentences, more than the previous nine presidents combined.
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# prisons - Tuesday 26 July, 2016
In total, 10% of the prison population was out last Wednesday.
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# prisons - Friday 15 July, 2016
Major new study says jails hothouse infectious diseases, which are then passed on to the wider community.
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# prisons - Friday 24 June, 2016
A new prisons report is concerned with homelessness and re-offending among new releases.
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# prisons - Tuesday 31 May, 2016
Young adults are overrepresented in the prison population.
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# prisons - Thursday 28 April, 2016
The Prison Officers Association is calling for power to be removed from gangs in prison.
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# prisons - Thursday 31 December, 2015
The process was known as ‘shedding’.
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# prisons - Thursday 24 December, 2015
“Frankly, it is maddening,” the governor of Washington state said.
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# prisons - Saturday 19 December, 2015
For repeat offenders of any crime, after a certain point there is perhaps very little we can do as a society to help them, but other countries are shaking things up, writes Aaron McKenna.
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# prisons - Thursday 17 December, 2015
A female prisoner in an all-male prison has attempted self-harm and suicide on several occasions, according to a British MP.
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# prisons - Monday 14 December, 2015
Study finds most prisoners are convicted of new offences within months of their release.
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# prisons - Tuesday 1 December, 2015
It comes as a South African appeals court prepares to rule on whether he should be sent back to prison.
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# prisons - Friday 20 November, 2015
Vicky Thompson had reportedly requested to be transferred to a female jail.
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# prisons - Tuesday 17 November, 2015
An anti-torture committee has raised serious concerns about conditions in Irish prisons.
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# prisons - Wednesday 4 November, 2015
“This is the problem – the kind of control these people have over the general population.”
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# prisons - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
It comes after inmates formed a pyramid to help a prisoner get on the roof of Mountjoy prison earlier this month.
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# prisons - Monday 11 May, 2015
The United States is up for its four-year review.
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# prisons - Saturday 9 May, 2015
It’s the second death of a prisoner in 24 hours.
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# prisons - Sunday 5 April, 2015
Two are over capacity and four are almost there.
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# prisons - Thursday 19 March, 2015
Nearly half of those were in Mountjoy Prison.
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# prisons - Wednesday 11 March, 2015
There have been a number of attacks on officers this year.
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# prisons - Thursday 5 March, 2015
Ben Carson has since walked back his claims.
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# prisons - Tuesday 17 February, 2015
The training and continuous development of prison staff is one aspect that will be reviewed in a major new audit.
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# prisons - Saturday 7 February, 2015
The Irish Prison Officers’ Association said the initiatives announced this week are nothing new.
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# prisons - Saturday 31 January, 2015
That’s after 728 were confiscated last year.
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# prisons - Thursday 22 January, 2015
And how are they being trained for life outside?
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# prisons - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
The nine justices acknowledged the validity of prison officials’ security concerns — that inmates could hide weapons or other contraband inside their whiskers.
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