While there were 5,101 people in prisons across the country on February 6, there were 11 per cent fewer beds (546) ...

THIS is the moment a drone is used to drop a flaming fireball into Mountjoy Prison in a bid to smuggle drugs to inmates.

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is expected to spend at least €16 million on 30 “modular” apartment-style cells designed to help ease long-serving prisoners back into society. The “rooms ...

State paid €29m for Thornton Hall site, now worth just €6.5m Thornton Hall prison site in North County Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren The Irish Prison Service has spent more than €114,000 over ...

across the Irish Sea four Irish men were escaping from a Welsh prison: Frank Shouldice, Joe McGrath, George Geraghty and Barney Mellows. Shouldice, a veteran of the 1916 Rising, was arrested in ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS)’s long-awaited policy guidance on the appropriate housing of trans inmates has been delayed further, as officials struggle to identify a suitable model. Despite two ...