AN outright ban on smoking in prisons is unworkable and could cause considerable unrest, the Irish Penal Reform Trust warned yesterday.

PRISON officers yesterday accused their employers of failing to come with any concrete proposals to cut the €60m annual overtime bill, increasing the threat of a strike.

IN our view the proposed national wage agreement now being voted on

A NOTORIOUS gangster and murderer has been accused of sexually harassing a female prison officer and has sparked the first industrial action at a jail in 15 years.

I HAVE read the recent reports on the proposed restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act and consider them to be an extremely backward step.

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.

THE men and women of the Irish Prison Service are very concerned that various newspaper articles taint the public’s perception of them.