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Cork Prison ‘overcrowded’ every day for the last two years
Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan said the Irish Prison Service (IPS) must accept all people committed by the courts and has ...
Grim drone GUN drop fear as brazen Irish inmates get drugs & weapons to cell windows & jail tensions at ‘breaking point’
INMATES are getting drugs, weapons and phones delivered by drone to their cell windows. And prison officers are ­fearful that ...
Judge slams ‘unacceptable’ situation whereby NI inmate is being served in jail canteen by his father who sexually abused him
A judge has remarked that it is “totally and utterly unacceptable” that a sentenced drugs offender is now being served food ...
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Short-sighted attitude to prison overcrowding reflects our country's political cowardice
That is the reality of prison in Ireland today. The above scenario resembles closely what a recent Inspector of Prisons report recorded in Cloverhill, the west Dublin institution, in 2023.
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Drone 'intercepted' delivering 'large quantity' of drugs and mobile phones to Irish prison
The Irish Prison Service shared photos of the bust to social media with a drone and a haul of drugs and mobile phones ...
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Irish family will have to sell home to get father out of Iraqi prison
Robert Pether, an Australian national who had been living in Elphin, Co. Roscommon, was arrested in Baghdad in April 2021.