Understanding the consequences of different sentences can help us decide which aims of sentencing we want to prioritise ...

The Government is rolling out plans to begin electronically tagging prisoners “towards the end of this year” in a major ...

A CORK politician has ruled out Ireland’s Alcatraz reopening as a prison following Donald Trump’s bid to revive the iconic US ...

It said there was a case for incapacitant spray and that prison officers in Ireland were “unique” among ­European jailers in not being allowed to carry ­“defensive weapons or compliance ...