Albert Woodfox, the last of three high-profile Louisiana prisoners known as the “Angola Three”, and who has spent more than four decades in solitary confinement, could walk free within days after a federal judge ordered state officials to release him immediately.

Socialite Nicole Ritchie fears following in the footsteps of her 'Simple Life' partner by being "exploited" and sentenced to a jail term.

FOLLOWING the failure of talks with the Prison Officers Association (POA), Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell has announced contingency plans for the mothballing of two prisons — Fort Mitchell on Spike Island and the Curragh Place of Detention — as well as the closure of two other prisons, Shelton Abbey and Loughan House, both of which are due to be privatised.