Communities across the North must stand together to reject the dark deeds of the dark men who murdered a prison officer, mourners at his funeral were told.

A group calling itself the New IRA has claimed responsibility for a Semtex bomb attack that injured a prison officer in Belfast, according to reports.

A bomb attack on a prison officer in Northern Ireland may be the first of a number of dissident republican murder bids launched to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, police have warned.

The governor of the North's main high security prison has resigned less than five months after taking up the post.

Prison authorities in the North have launched an investigation after bomb-making parts were found during the search of a high-security jail.

A threatened strike by prison officers in the North has been averted after talks with the government, it was confirmed today.

THERE was massive publicity recently about the free choice of 10 convicted prisoners from two secret armed revolutionary gangs — INLA and PIRA — to use the emotional blackmail of a hunger strike to enforce their will within Northern Ireland’s prison system in 1981.

A blueprint for the future of the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) is to be drawn up, it was announced today.

The Northern Ireland Prison Service was heavily censured today in an official report on how treats women in custody.

The Northern Ireland Prison Service has been forced to release 10 prisoners after a European court ruled that their human rights had been abused.