# Prison
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April 2024
This year
2024
Verdict
Former Brazil international Dani Alves sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for rape
22 Feb
3.7k
Last year
2023
Alexei Navalny
'No reindeer, unfortunately': Russian opposition leader re-emerges in Arctic Circle penal colony
26 Dec 2023
26.1k
46
Calling Time
‘Children don’t deserve this’: Visiting an imprisoned parent is ‘traumatising’
30 Nov 2023
10.7k
THE MORNING LEAD
‘A long way from normal’: Families say visits to prison still restricted post-pandemic
Some children only get to see their parent in-person once a month and experts are concerned that video calls are replacing visits.
Investigation by Noteworthy finds the number of children visiting prison is 75% of what it was in 2019
Less than a third of prisoners received in-person visits on weeks where data was provided in 2023
Mother-of-two: “I want my kids to know who their father is”
29 Nov 2023
12.9k
minimum sentencing
Varadkar: 'If we want dangerous people locked up for a long time, we're going to need more prison spaces'
18 Nov 2023
16.3k
PSNI
Suspected gang leader on the run after being granted bail to attend funeral in Dublin
15 Sep 2023
34.1k
London
Hunt for terror suspect enters third day in UK after 21-year-old man escapes from prison
8 Sep 2023
20.8k
Courts
Prisoner who strangled cellmate found guilty of manslaughter by diminished responsibility
1 Aug 2023
17.2k
10
Mental Health
Prison committees flag serious concerns over inmate mental health
25 Jun 2023
13.4k
73
Prison
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes reports to prison in Texas for 11-year sentence
30 May 2023
31.3k
32
Cabinet
Jail-time for assaulting Gardaí or ramming Garda vehicles to increase to 12 years
23 May 2023
13.3k
28
Prisoner
Prison officer stabbed in face during attempted escape by inmate from Mountjoy
8 May 2023
30.8k
FACTCHECK
Debunked: Leo Varadkar did not say that 'biological males' shouldn't be put in female prisons
24 Mar 2023
11.4k
Castlerea Prison
Prison inmate died after not receiving CPR for 7 minutes due to delays in opening cell
27 Feb 2023
28.2k
Courts
Wicklow man jailed for seven years for the sexual abuse and rape of his step-niece
20 Feb 2023
16.7k
bernard phelan
France concerned for health of French-Irish citizen on hunger strike in Iran prison
17 Jan 2023
10.6k
3
All time
Looking Back
Emotional Boris Becker relied on 'blood brothers' to protect him in prison
21 Dec 2022
12.8k
6
Blind Justice
The Explainer x Noteworthy: Why are Travellers so overrepresented in prison?
Updated
2 Nov 2022
10.1k
Investigation
Blind Justice: How prison is leaving Travellers isolated and traumatised
31 Oct 2022
24.7k
Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentenced to three years for 'electoral fraud'
2 Sep 2022
7.8k
11
Russia
Kremlin critic Navalny says he is in solitary confinement for starting union in prison
15 Aug 2022
15.7k
6
mountjoy death
Lessons must be learned from death of Mountjoy prisoner, says McEntee
4 Aug 2022
14.3k
Mountjoy
Gardaí investigating after prisoner 'seriously injured' during Mountjoy Prison incident
30 Jul 2022
31.2k
19
ww2
Taoiseach pays emotional visit to Singapore prison camp that held his uncle
22 Jul 2022
31.9k
35
Mental Health
Third of UK prisoners show symptoms of 'severe anxiety disorder' due to pandemic
20 Jul 2022
10.6k
10
Voices
Opinion: Ireland is tarnished by its use of prisons to house the unwanted and mentally ill
Professor Kathleen Lynch
27 Dec 2021
19.2k
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