The Irish Prisons Service paid €5. 6 million in 2020, in a deal outside of public spending laws, to a company with whom previous prisons deals had prompted an ongoing external investigation.

When Joe Biden is inaugurated in January there will be 52 prisoners left on federal death row in the US. It would not take him long to spare their lives, writes Ian O’Donnell

Some increase in at-home consumption has helped offset the problems in public spaces