# Prisoners
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Last month
April 2024
Prisoners
Overcrowding in Irish prisons leading to 'unsafe and unworkable' conditions, prison body says
Updated
25 Apr
10.1k
52
This year
2024
Prisoners
Prisoners convicted of minor crimes to undergo training programmes ahead of release
20 Feb
7.6k
50
Last year
2023
All time
Mountjoy Prison
Mountjoy inmate who was injured after attack by group of prisoners has died
Updated
3 Aug 2022
72.4k
Russia
UN issues war crimes warning after death sentences given to soldiers
Updated
10 Jun 2022
36.0k
22
NATO
Russia continues assault on east Ukraine as Finland moves towards joining Nato
Updated
12 May 2022
46.7k
34
Cloverhill Prison
Cloverhill Prison confirms mass testing for Covid-19 as prisoner tests positive
10 Nov 2021
8.0k
1
CSO
Almost half of criminals released from prison re-offended within a year, new figures show
25 Jun 2021
14.1k
46
Prison
Prison watchdog questions use of handcuffs for escorting gravely ill prisoners to hospital
18 Apr 2021
19.3k
38
covid jab
HSE confirms prison nurses will be vaccinated as frontline healthcare workers - but timeline remains unclear
16 Jan 2021
13.1k
19
Coronavirus
Three prisoners in Portlaoise and Mountjoy test positive for Covid-19
12 Jan 2021
15.1k
12
Prisoners
51 inmates in Irish prisons still 'slopping out' despite government pledge to end practice by this year
21 Aug 2020
27.3k
36
Prison
Alcohol-free hand sanitiser given to prisoners over fears it would be used for 'moonshine'
16 Mar 2020
30.8k
37
Coronavirus
Six prisoners in Italy die from methadone overdoses during protest over Covid-19 measures
9 Mar 2020
41.5k
30
Criminal
Prisoners sleeping on floors as overcrowding a 'serious issue,' prison officers warn
2 May 2019
16.3k
60
PAC
Over €100k paid out in compensation to two families of prisoners who died from self-inflicted injuries
29 Mar 2019
18.3k
22
three thousand nights
Over 3,400 cases of prisoners sleeping on mattresses on floors in past three months
12 Feb 2019
17.0k
61
Prisoners
'He fought to maintain his sanity': Posters go up near Mountjoy raising awareness of prisoner healthcare
17 Nov 2018
23.2k
29
Cork
Many prisoners on Spike Island may have been from 'black spots of disadvantage'
7 Sep 2018
13.9k
8
interest free
Irish Prison Service paid out €500k in loans to inmates over three years
14 Nov 2017
32.4k
85
hiring ex prisoners
'People we recruit from prison are on average more loyal, more honest and stay with us for longer'
1 Oct 2017
34.3k
20
Slopping Out
No damages for prisoner whose rights were breached by being forced to defecate in chamber pot
13 Sep 2017
18.5k
49
Prison Officers
The Dóchas female prison experienced the highest number of assaults by convicts on officers last year
17 Jul 2017
16.6k
25
Georgia
Two inmates 'dangerous beyond description' on the run after killing guards
14 Jun 2017
32.0k
19
the full monty
Convicted criminal climbed on roof of Mountjoy Prison and stripped naked
14 Jun 2017
16.6k
45
Prison Break
Seventeen prisoners shot dead following mass breakout in a Papua New Guinea prison
15 May 2017
11.4k
10
state claims agency
Assaults on prison staff cost the state around €26 million over seven years
24 Nov 2016
7.6k
67
Portlaoise
Officer hospitalised with knife wounds after intervening in prison attack
15 Oct 2016
17.4k
18