# prisons - Tuesday 24 November, 2020
# Prisons
# Prisons
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture has published a report on Irish prisons today.
# prisons - Friday 21 August, 2020
# Prisoners
# Prisoners
The total figure is a decrease from 465 people in January 2014.
# prisons - Monday 17 August, 2020
# Irish Prison Service
# Irish Prison Service
Limits on visiting were introduced at the start of the Covid-19 crisis.
# prisons - Monday 15 June, 2020
# New Report
# New Report
The Irish Prison Service annual report 2019 was published today.
# prisons - Tuesday 31 March, 2020
# Covid-19 Measures
# Covid-19 Measures
“Difficulties do exist in implementing social distancing on the basis that over 52% of prisoners share cells,” a prison spokesperson said.
# prisons - Friday 27 March, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Visits to prisons will end from tomorrow, the government has also announced.
# prisons - Friday 13 March, 2020
# Irish Prison Service
# Irish Prison Service
Concerns had already been raised about how the Irish Prison Service would cope with Covid-19.
# prisons - Monday 9 March, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Family visits were restricted to prevent transmission in prisons, causing increased tensions.
# prisons - Thursday 5 March, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The Irish Penal Reform Trust has said that overcrowded prisons make it harder to control the spread of the viruses.
# prisons - Thursday 25 July, 2019
# Irish Prison Service
# Irish Prison Service
The report was carried out by the Inspector of Prisons .
# prisons - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
# Supermax
# Supermax
The facility in Colorado houses some of the United States’ most notorious criminals.
# prisons - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
# Three Thousand Nights
# Three Thousand Nights
Minister Charlie Flanagan said his officials are always working to try to reduce overcrowding.
# prisons - Thursday 19 April, 2018
# Violent Attacks
# Violent Attacks
Jim Mitchell, from the Prison Officers’ Association. has said the official figures “don’t reflect” the situation on the ground.
# prisons - Monday 26 February, 2018
# Contraband
# Contraband
557 weapons were also seized in Irish prisons last year.
# prisons - Thursday 31 August, 2017
# Contraband
# Contraband
The figure is up on last year, but way down on 2008 when about 42-a -week were seized.
# prisons - Thursday 17 August, 2017
# Blades
# Blades
Last year alone, 435 weapons were recovered from inmates.
# prisons - Sunday 16 July, 2017
# Emptied Out
# Emptied Out
They are also being turned into business hubs.
# prisons - Monday 15 May, 2017
# A Fine Thing
# A Fine Thing
New legislation enacted last year is being heralded as the reason for the reduction in committals.
# prisons - Friday 28 April, 2017
# Life On The Inside
# Life On The Inside
Prison officers outlined the dangers they face in their day-to-day jobs.
# prisons - Monday 23 January, 2017
# Jailhouse Dosh
# Jailhouse Dosh
The Irish Prison Service has paid out over €27 million in pocket money to prisoners since 2009.
# prisons - Monday 16 January, 2017
# Riot
# Riot
Officials said members of two drug gangs clashed violently after coming out of different parts of the prison.
# prisons - Friday 16 December, 2016
# Prisons
# Prisons
Approximately 200 staff are supposed to work at the prison each day.
# prisons - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
# On The Line
# On The Line
Prisoners found in possession of a mobile phone could be prosecuted.
# prisons - Saturday 26 November, 2016
# Inspector Of Prisons
# Inspector Of Prisons
The Inspector of Prisons died earlier today.
# prisons - Sunday 16 October, 2016
# Penal Reform
# Penal Reform
It is common knowledge that deaths from suicide and drug overdoses are common in Irish prisons, writes researcher Stephen Strauss-Walsh.
# prisons - Wednesday 3 August, 2016
# Obama Clementia
# Obama Clementia
US president has now commuted 562 sentences, more than the previous nine presidents combined.
# prisons - Tuesday 26 July, 2016
# Prison
# Prison
In total, 10% of the prison population was out last Wednesday.
# prisons - Friday 15 July, 2016
# Decriminalisation
# Decriminalisation
Major new study says jails hothouse infectious diseases, which are then passed on to the wider community.
# prisons - Friday 24 June, 2016
# On The Outside
# On The Outside
A new prisons report is concerned with homelessness and re-offending among new releases.
# prisons - Tuesday 31 May, 2016
# Lockup
# Lockup
Young adults are overrepresented in the prison population.
# prisons - Thursday 28 April, 2016
# Gangland Bloodshed
# Gangland Bloodshed
The Prison Officers Association is calling for power to be removed from gangs in prison.
# prisons - Thursday 31 December, 2015
# Off You Go So
# Off You Go So
The process was known as ‘shedding’.
# prisons - Thursday 24 December, 2015
# Computer Glitch
# Computer Glitch
“Frankly, it is maddening,” the governor of Washington state said.
# prisons - Saturday 19 December, 2015
# Column
# Column
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.
# prisons - Thursday 17 December, 2015
# UK
# UK
A female prisoner in an all-male prison has attempted self-harm and suicide on several occasions, according to a British MP.
# prisons - Monday 14 December, 2015
# Repeat Offenders
# Repeat Offenders
Study finds most prisoners are convicted of new offences within months of their release.
# prisons - Tuesday 1 December, 2015
# South Africa
# South Africa
It comes as a South African appeals court prepares to rule on whether he should be sent back to prison.
# prisons - Friday 20 November, 2015
# Leeds
# Leeds
Vicky Thompson had reportedly requested to be transferred to a female jail.
# prisons - Tuesday 17 November, 2015
# Cloverhill
# Cloverhill
An anti-torture committee has raised serious concerns about conditions in Irish prisons.
# prisons - Wednesday 4 November, 2015
# Criminals
# Criminals
“This is the problem – the kind of control these people have over the general population.”
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