The body representing the country’s prison officers has expressed its disappointment at the Irish Prison Service’s decision to conduct an internal report into Derek Brockwell’s escape from Tallaght Hospital.

A PRISON officer is recovering after a vicious stabbing incident in Castlerea Prison yesterday.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell seems more preoccupied with battling prison officers over overtime than the fight against gun gangs, Labour's Tommy Broughan claimed today.

Prison officers in Northern Ireland are under a new threat from loyalist terrorists, it was claimed today.