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New justice minister volunteers to wear alcohol monitoring tag
Electronic monitoring devices can keep tabs on the alcohol levels in the wearer’s sweat every 30 minutes.
Maghaberry Prison death: Report finds ‘learning’ to be done by prison service and health trust
Findings of a report by the interim prisoner ombudsman into Kenneth Ramage’s death are released today
Arrest over video showing ‘prison officer having sex with inmate in cell’
Officers arrested a woman on suspicion of misconduct in a public office on Friday.
Ex-INLA chief Dessie ‘the border fox’ O’Hare released from prison
Earning his nickname from eluding authorities on either side of the border, he had been in Portlaoise Prison for an attempted violent eviction in Dublin
PSNI warns public ‘not to approach’ prisoner Gerard Given who is ‘unlawfully at large’
Gerard Given was convicted last year of grievous bodily harm
Retired Derry GP and General Election candidate who served two days in prison released after patients pay fine
Dr Anne McCloskey was freed after serving two days of a 14-day sentence
Kevin Barry Artt: Not quite The Great Escape
The chaotic nature of the 1983 Maze escape and how Kevin Barry Artt, wrongly convicted for murder, made a slow and delayed exit…
‘Belfast is quite punk’ - Argentine writer, journalist and Netflix chart-topper Luciana De Mello on living and working in the periphery
Ahead of the annual Belfast Book Festival Sophie Clarke chats to Luciana De Mello about the importance of bringing art and literature to those living on the margins
Union calls for investigation after 25 prison staff poisoned with drug spice
Incident happened at men’s high security prison HMP Swaleside in Kent.
Ireland’s Alcatraz: new book on Co Cork penal colony Spike Island reveals all about historic prison, once the largest of its kind in the world
Former Spike Island CEO John Crotty writes about the defunct penal colony in Cork harbour, which once hosted famous inmates including Martin ‘The General’ Cahill and Bubbles the chimpanzee