Murderers and sex offenders enjoyed a taxpayer-funded Christmas party with the top civil servants responsible for running Northern Ireland’s jails.

A whiskey distillery has opened inside Crumlin Road Gaol, once a notorious Belfast prison. Tourists in the Northern Irish capital can visit the McConnell's distillery on guided tours \- including a ...

Magilligan prison in Co Derry is "running at capacity" with nearly 100 prisoners now sharing cells and authorities considering "shorter term accommodation options" to ease pressure, it has emerged.

BELFAST (Reuters) - A prison officer was killed in Northern Ireland on Thursday when he drove into a hail of bullets and crashed off a motorway at high speed, in an attack blamed by politicians on ...

Jon Burrows says Northern Ireland is now the only part of the United Kingdom not to have a smoking ban in prisons, with prisoners allowed to smoke in their cells. Minister Naomi Long has said that an ...

Despite their "unique needs, criminal justice policy has largely overlooked incarcerated women, partly because they are significantly outnumbered by men in the prison system," say Heather Rice-Minus ...

James Meehan, 56, failed to return to Magilligan Prison in Co Derry after being out on day release in December 2024 ...

The Secretary of State for Justice has announced the appointment of Mark Hamilton as member of the Prison Service Pay Review Body. The Secretary of ...

Trump administration officials aim to pressure some noncitizens into self-deporting. It worked on Matthew Morrison. In mid-July, the 69-year-old former psychiatric nurse supervisor quietly fled the ...