IRISH jails were operating at such extreme levels of overcrowding that senior officials warned they might not be able to take any new inmates and would struggle to produce prisoners at court. In a ...

AN independent TD has lashed out at the prison service for using public money to fund a number of podcasts which have cost ...

Series of reports published by Minister for Justice ‘lay bare cracks in system that continue to widen, with devastating consequences’ ...

The reports, published by the Department of Justice, concern five deaths in prison custody between 2022 and 2024.

Irish Prison Service responded to recommendations in a report following a death at the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise ...

Prisoners surrendered hundreds of synthetic opioid tablets after a fatal overdose at Mountjoy Prison, a report has said.

The Irish Prison Service issued an urgent drug alert to all prisons on July 18 2024 over nitazene tablets after the overdose of a 21-year-old at Mountjoy ...

I'm going to tell you a story about the power of the bond between mothers and their sons - a bond more powerful than the might of the Army, Prison Officers and Police. This tale has been told to me ...

More than 340 psychiatric patients are being held within the Irish prison system, with 38 people deemed ill enough for the ...