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Friday 25 September 2020
The total figure is a decrease from 465 people in January 2014.
Limits on visiting were introduced at the start of the Covid-19 crisis.
The Irish Prison Service annual report 2019 was published today.
“Difficulties do exist in implementing social distancing on the basis that over 52% of prisoners share cells,” a prison spokesperson said.
Visits to prisons will end from tomorrow, the government has also announced.
Concerns had already been raised about how the Irish Prison Service would cope with Covid-19.
Family visits were restricted to prevent transmission in prisons, causing increased tensions.
Strict new Covid-19 measures are now in effect in the capital – here’s what they mean for you.
The Irish Penal Reform Trust has said that overcrowded prisons make it harder to control the spread of the viruses.
The report was carried out by the Inspector of Prisons.
The facility in Colorado houses some of the United States’ most notorious criminals.
Minister Charlie Flanagan said his officials are always working to try to reduce overcrowding.
Jim Mitchell, from the Prison Officers’ Association. has said the official figures “don’t reflect” the situation on the ground.
557 weapons were also seized in Irish prisons last year.
The figure is up on last year, but way down on 2008 when about 42-a -week were seized.
Last year alone, 435 weapons were recovered from inmates.
They are also being turned into business hubs.
New legislation enacted last year is being heralded as the reason for the reduction in committals.
Prison officers outlined the dangers they face in their day-to-day jobs.
The Irish Prison Service has paid out over €27 million in pocket money to prisoners since 2009.
Officials said members of two drug gangs clashed violently after coming out of different parts of the prison.
Approximately 200 staff are supposed to work at the prison each day.
Prisoners found in possession of a mobile phone could be prosecuted.
The Inspector of Prisons died earlier today.
It is common knowledge that deaths from suicide and drug overdoses are common in Irish prisons, writes researcher Stephen Strauss-Walsh.
US president has now commuted 562 sentences, more than the previous nine presidents combined.
In total, 10% of the prison population was out last Wednesday.
Major new study says jails hothouse infectious diseases, which are then passed on to the wider community.
A new prisons report is concerned with homelessness and re-offending among new releases.
Young adults are overrepresented in the prison population.
The Prison Officers Association is calling for power to be removed from gangs in prison.
The process was known as ‘shedding’.
“Frankly, it is maddening,” the governor of Washington state said.
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.
A female prisoner in an all-male prison has attempted self-harm and suicide on several occasions, according to a British MP.
Study finds most prisoners are convicted of new offences within months of their release.
It comes as a South African appeals court prepares to rule on whether he should be sent back to prison.
Vicky Thompson had reportedly requested to be transferred to a female jail.
An anti-torture committee has raised serious concerns about conditions in Irish prisons.
“This is the problem – the kind of control these people have over the general population.”
It comes after inmates formed a pyramid to help a prisoner get on the roof of Mountjoy prison earlier this month.
IT’S BEEN A tough few months since the Covid-19 pandemic took hold of the nation.
Many people have been affected by job losses, isolation and a lack of social interaction, and the loss of loved ones.
Today, youth mental health charity Jigsaw said it saw a 50% increase in demand for its services in August this year compared to the same period last year.
There has also been an over 400% increase of traffic to its e-mental health platform over the last six months, a surge in demand for its schools supports and a month-on-month increase to calls to 1800 JIGSAW support line.
So, today we want to know: Has your mental health been affected since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic?
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Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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