Water protesters in Wheatfield prison “are willing to go back on hunger strike” if an agreement they claim to have made with prison officials falls through.

A specialist unit for gang members and other protected inmates at Mountjoy prison in Dublin, is no longer fit for purpose, according to a report from the Inspector of Prisons.

Jailed Ivor Callely has reportedly been moved to the medical unit of Mountjoy Prison.

Ivor Callely is under round-the-clock observation in Mountjoy Prison’s acute mental health unit.

From leafy Clontarf to a little cell in C Block, from a Victorian red-brick residence to a Victorian prison, Ivor Callely will wonder whether the €4,000 was worth it.

Self-harm incidents more than doubled in St Patrick’s Institution for young offenders last year.

Get Rhythm are touring Irish prisons, much as Johnny played the penitentiaries in the US, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

Prison chiefs have been warned that it is no longer good enough to blame a lack of money for overcrowding and 23-hour lock-up in Mountjoy.

A judge has recommended that a Limerick woman accused of murdering a father-of-two, who was shot dead in west Dublin last month, is to be held at a prison closer to her family.

UP to three inmates are being crammed into single cells in Mountjoy to allow for the refurbishment of one of the wings in the prison.

THE Prison Service has contradicted dramatic claims in the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) report that staff at Mountjoy Prison were not subjected to the same strict drug security measures as visitors.

PRISONERS using bottles and plastic bags to urinate and defecate in front of each other in cramped cells are among the “degrading” and “debasing” conditions exposed by an international torture committee.

The jury in the trial of a former Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering another inmate at the jail four years ago, has been sent home for the night after failing to reach a verdict.

A 30-year-old former Mountjoy inmate has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of a fellow inmate at the jail over three years ago.

PRISON overcrowding has reached such dangerous levels that it is now the central factor in violence among inmates as well as a surging drug culture and the ongoing failure to rehabilitate those convicted of crimes.

ALMOST 2,800 young people are on a waiting list for child and adolescent mental health services, HSE figures have shown.

PRISON officers at Mount- joy unanimously agreed yesterday to press ahead with a ballot for industrial action, up to and including strike action.

THE public row over the Prison Service and conditions at Mountjoy Prison escalated yesterday when the chairman of the Mountjoy Visiting Committee disputed claims from an outspoken former committee member.

One of the country’s longest serving prison governors, John Lonergan, is to retire from Mountjoy next month, it was confirmed today.

The Government was pressed today to carry out an urgent review of the country’s only women’s prison after its governor resigned citing overcrowding.

A Mountjoy prisoner who beat his 20-year-old cellmate to death has been found not guilty of his murder, but guilty of his manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

The Mountjoy visiting committee has reportedly found that drugs and mobile phones are still being smuggled into Dublin's Mountjoy Prison despite new searching measures.

LAST summer, the Prison Service issued a stark warning that Mountjoy was liable to erupt.

THE mounting overcrowding problem in Irish prisons looks set to continue following official indications that the planned superprison at Thornton Hall will be delayed well beyond 2011.

THE Prison Officers’ Association (POA) has strongly criticised prison bosses for slashing a much-praised rehabilitation programme in Mountjoy Jail.

Prison officers are due to meet management at Mountjoy Prison this afternoon to discuss the confrontation between inmates and staff over the weekend.

Closing speeches have been heard in the trial of a Mountjoy Prisoner accused of murdering another inmate.

The jury in the trial of a Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering another inmate has heard that the deceased was the main suspect in a shooting incident in a Cabra pub in 2005.

Mountjoy Prison is to get a team of dedicated counsellors to treat the 250 inmates battling heroin addiction in the jail, it was revealed today.

The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has introduced moves to ease overcrowding problems at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.

I REFER to the column by Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, July 4) concerning the estimated cost of running the proposed new prison development to replace the Mountjoy prison campus at Thornton in north Co Dublin.

Gardaí have recaptured one of two women who escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin this morning.

Almost 12 months ago the GAA unveiled a commendable and ambitious strategy to counteract the burgeoning problem of alcohol and substance abuse.

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell's plans for hard-hitting jail reforms have been dealt a blow with the decision by the country's best-known prison governor to quit when the changes kick in.

The Government is being asked to consider using the Women's Prison at Mountjoy as a step-down unit for the Mater Hospital.

DUBLIN’S new prison will be five-times the size of Mountjoy and will cater for 1,000 inmates.

THE Inspector of Prisons, Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen, has delivered a scathing attack on the Government for its failure to support his office and act on his complaints about prison conditions.

Mountjoy Jail should be knocked down and replaced, according to the first ever report by the inspector of prisons.

FAECES and urine were dumped over the landings of the State's largest prison yesterday as inmates protested new regulations that authorities claim are aimed at cutting down drug-smuggling into the jail.