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Sources in Edo Prison in Benin City, south-south Nigeria, have revealed how top prison officials carry out all sorts of illegal activities, like sharing out among themselves welfare materials donated to inmates by non-governmental organisations and religious bodies. SaharaReporters also learnt that such corrupt officials use privileged inmates to attack and brutalise those who challenge them.  

His lies bred a lasting political cynicism

Fr Peter McVerry will be among the guests on the evening

Independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Jonathan Hall QC said terrorists released for ‘completely correct reasons’ could still reoffend.

President Michael D. Higgins signed a Presidential Pardon at an event in Áras an Uachtaráin for Mr John Twiss, who was executed in Cork Prison on 9 February…

Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

A row over sandwiches ended in riots that left one inmate dead

Prisons Week starts today - but what can that achieve? An experienced Prison Chaplain knows, and tells!

A service was held at HMP Whitemoor yesterday (Wednesday August 18) to remember those who lost their lives during a RAF training flight 80 years ago.

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro, one of the most famous Zimbabwean Roman Catholic Church priests who contributed to the country’s liberation struggle has died at the age of 86. Fr Ribeiro, a theologian, music composer, educationist, writer, media activist and nationalist, died Thursday morning, hours before Zambia’s nationalist founding father Kenneth Kaunda also died later in the day in the neighbouring country. Fr Ribeiro died at St Anne’s Hospital in Harare where...