A RECORD 40 female lags are sleeping on the floor in Irish jails due to overcrowding. The prisoners must kip on mattresses ...

Prison overcrowding is damaging the prospect of ‘any meaningful rehabilitation’ among inmates, new documents have warned. In its annual report for 2023, the Prison Visiting Committee raised concerns ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is set to spend an estimated €480,000 on providing a hairdressing skills workshop for inmates at the female Dóchas prison in Dublin over the next four years.

Chronic underfunding, no outpatient service framework and a lack of supported accommodation have all brought us to the point where our prisons are full of the mentally ill, writes Charles O'Mahony ...

A virtual tour of Ireland’s largest Prison, which aims to inform the public, and reduce anxiety among incoming prisoners and their visitors, is now known to have cost over €60,000 to develop and ...

Ongoing engagement between the IPS and gardai is helping prevent the contraband entering Ireland's prisons ...

The New Women’s Prison in Limerick is regarded as the most state-of-the-art prison in Europe. With an innovative ‘trauma-informed’ design this is a brave new touchstone for the Irish Prison Services; ...