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Irish Prisons

Last week
27th April 2025 - 3rd May 2025
New ankle monitors could be an alternative to being held on remand, Irish prisons boss says
Drones dropping 'unprecedented level' of contraband to prisons (even one cell window delivery)
Electronic tags to monitor people convicted or accused of crime to be rolled out this year
Over 350 people are sleeping on mattresses on the floor in Irish prisons
This year
2025
Justice minister says prisons shouldn't be 'clogged up' with shoplifters or people living with addiction
Last year
2024
Opinion: Overcrowding in our prisons causes issues for the children of inmates too
Senan Tuohy-Hamill
Colm O'Regan: I've learned recently that most crime is the result of a series of bad decisions
Colm O'Regan
Just 8 of Ireland's 692 imprisoned sexual offenders are enrolled in a rehabilitation program
Just 44 people have completed the programme in the last two years, 15 in 2022 and 29 in 2023.
Suspected overdoses at Portlaoise Prison ‘probably due to synthetic opioids’
Prison overcrowding: The number of people in prison in Ireland hit 5,000 for the first time ever
New analysis shows the prison population is climbing year on year.
Government to increase sentences for crimes involving knives
All time
More prisoners on temporary release in attempt to tackle Irish Prison Service overcrowding
Irish Penal Reform Trust express 'grave concern' as bed capacity reaches 100% across prison estate
Irish Prison Service contacts retired staff in a bid to get them temporarily back to work
More than two-thirds of Irish prisoners on 'restricted' regime kept in cells for 21 hours a day, report finds
Electronically tagging 59 prisoners last year cost the State €116,000
Prison officers seized two weapons a day over the last five years
'It took six officers to restrain him': Psychoactive legal highs are creeping into Irish prisons
Nine prisoners have been held in solitary confinement for over 12 months
Prisoners using loophole to get out of jail early
What goes on in Ireland's jails? Prison culture to be put under the microscope
Are prisoners being freed temporarily to relieve overcrowding?
Parole review shows drugs and alcohol a factor in majority of crimes
Shatter defends early prisoner release scheme
Prison officer 'slashed across face and hands with razor blades'
Every prisoner death to come under independent investigation
39 per cent increase in people sent to prison for not paying fines
The Daily Fix: Monday
The Daily Fix: Monday
Prisons' Inspector criticises procedures for investigating prisoner deaths
Ireland failing to meet human rights obligations in prison system: IHRC