Midlands Prison News Today

The man appeared before Portlaoise District Court

The incident happened at the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise

A prisoner in a courthouse custody area struck a jailer on the head with a crutch when he was trying to hit another detained man and missed, it is alleged.

Killian Looney By Sarah Slater A CORK man is undertaking a mammoth marathon in aid of Carlow Women’s Aid. Killian Looney from Ballinacurra, Co Cork chose the…

Prison officers fear there may be major disturbances in the country’s prisons this summer as tensions among inmates rise due to overcrowding.

Defrocked cleric Eamonn Crossan was charged with almost 100 historic sexual offences against the man, who courageously faced his abuser at Court

A sexual abuse victim has told a former County Donegal priest ‘I hope you return to rot where you came from’ after he was abused over a period of five years.

DESPITE the much-lauded opening a new female wing in Limerick prison last October, there are now 15 women being forced to sleep on camp beds.

SPECIALIST gardaí rushed to the home of Justice Minister Helen McEntee after bomb threat was made against her, the Sunday World can reveal.

Helen McEntee’s husband Paul Hickey and the couple’s two children were removed from their home in Co Meath