The funeral for a prison officer murdered by dissident republicans in the North will take place in Belfast today.

A prison officer who died after he was injured in a bomb attack in Belfast may have had a heart attack, his colleagues said.

A prison officer who died after he was injured in a bomb attack in Belfast may have had a heart attack, his colleagues said.

A convicted murderer who went on the run after being let out of a high-security prison in the North is back in custody, the Northern Ireland Prison Service has said.

Convicted drug smuggler Michaella McCollum is set to be transferred from Peru to a jail in Northern Ireland.

Tyrone woman, Michaella McCollum, who was jailed for drug smuggling in Peru last year is to be transferred to a prison in the North.

Bread eaten by prisoners in the North's jails will be baked by inmates themselves under new plans to develop practical workplace skills - copying a scheme from Dublin's Mountjoy.

Northern Ireland’s main high-security jail is to be broken into three mini prisons, the justice minister said.

A 58-year-old prisoner has died inside Maghaberry prison after apparently taking his own life.

Colleagues from the Northern Ireland Prison Service shouldered the coffin of the first warder killed by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland for 20 years at his funeral today.

A prisoner serving a life sentence for murder has hanged himself in the North.

Three prison governors in the North face disciplinary action after a violent prisoner was released by mistake, a report said.

Prison officers in the North have agreed to reforms intended to overhaul the much-criticised service.

A triple killer from Co Armagh who died in jail of septicaemia had refused outside medical treatment, a report revealed today.

The head of the Northern Ireland Prison Service (Nips) is leaving after just more than a year in the role to take charge of Scotland's jails.

The brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams will be extradited to the North next month to face 18 allegations that he abused his daughter.

A High Court judge has described the content of a TV news programme detailing allegations of sexual abuse made against Liam Adams by his daughter as “objectionable and obnoxious”.

Several hundred Prison Service staff will lose their jobs in the North next year under a fundamental overhaul, it was revealed.

A Derry man due to appear in court today has died in his prison cell.

A prison officer planted a note of personal details about a governor in the North in the cell of a dissident republican suspect, the ombudsman said tonight.

Unacceptable management failures in the North's prisons mean they deliver an ineffective service despite having more staff than inmates, a damning report has found.

A man charged with serious sexual offences was accidentally released from prison in the North, officials said today.

The official inquiry into the murder of Loyalist terrorist Billy Wright in the Maze Prison found that there was no “state collusion” in his killing, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said today.

Tackling the North's crippling legal aid bill and dealing with problems in the prison system should be top priorities for the region's new Justice Minister, a Westminster Committee said today.

A FORMER Irish solider who killed three of his colleagues while on duty in the Lebanon in 1982 has been released from prison in Antrim.

A FORMER senator who was heavily involved in the North’s Patten Commission policing report will chair a three-month inquiry into the Tallaght Hospital crisis.

Notorious loyalist killer Torrens Knight was tonight arrested in the North and his release from prison suspended, Northern Ireland Prison Service said.

Prisoners in the North are confined to their cells too frequently after breaking the rules, it was revealed today.

The building of a new Magilligan Prison at a cost of around £200m (€222.5m) moved a step closer today with the appointment of consultants to manage the design and building programme.

Leading Democratic Unionist Ian Paisley Jnr said today that he is to appeal over a High Court decision ordering him to reveal a source which gave him evidence on the murder of a high-profile loyalist paramilitary.

Sixteen prison officers have been suspended from duty in the North's top-security Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim, it was announced today.

A laptop computer containing confidential information has been stolen from the London offices of a barrister involved in the public inquiry into the murder of loyalist paramilitary Billy Wright.

THE Irish prison service is set to enlist the support of sniffer dogs from the North to weed out drugs in the country’s jails.

Prison officers in the North are to be subjected to random searches by sniffer dogs as part of tough new measures to clamp down on the trafficking of drugs in jails, it was revealed today.

More than 100 custody officers begin work today as part of new arrangements for escorting prisoners to and from courts in the North.

Prison authorities in the North destroyed 52,382 files in the months before the Freedom of Information Act was introduced.

Responsibility for the destruction of security files on hundreds of former paramilitary prisoners in the top security Maze Prison was today laid at the feet of a Northern Ireland prison governor who has since died.

A security alert today failed to disrupt celebrations granting the Freedom of the City of Lisburn to the Northern Ireland Prison Service.

Human Rights Chief Commissioner Professor Monica McWilliams will begin a probe today into the conditions facing immigration detainees in the North.

A former soldier jailed over the loyalist murder of two Catholic workmen was found dead in his cell today.

Four hundred school children will be taken into custody by the Northern Ireland Prison Service this week to give them a first-hand taste of the realities of life behind bars.

Catholics were urged today to apply for 40 new jobs within the Northern Ireland Prison Service.

Police fired shots today after a high risk prisoner escaped from a court room in Northern Ireland.