An investigation is underway into an incident at Portlaoise Prison in which inmates threw the contents of their chamber pots at the governor and prison officers.

THE use of mobile phones by gang bosses inside the country’s only high-security prison has again caused a storm.

New technology is planned to block the use of mobiles in the prisons.

FOUR prison officers were injured, and one had to be taken to hospital, following a disturbance at a prison yesterday.

DEATH in prisons rose by 20% between 1999 and 2000, according to a new report.