Crimefighters in the North have seized control of a jailed thief's house, car and luxury watches, they revealed today.

An armed robber and a forger have gone missing after being given Christmas home leave from a Northern Ireland jail, it emerged today.

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.

Two inmates have ended a 10-hour rooftop protest at Magilligan Prison near Derry.

An armed robber on the run from prison was arrested today – after gunmen robbed a bank in Northern Ireland.

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

Loyalists today attempted to seize control of part of the high security Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim.

Loyalist prisoners have failed in an effort to seize control of a cell block in Co Antrim’s Maghaberry Prison.

THE spectre of republican hunger strikes looms over the North’s prison regime as inmates on a “dirty protest” planned new action.

The spectre of republican hunger strikes today loomed over Northern Ireland’s prison regime as inmates on a “dirty protest” planned new action.

Anti-war protesters demonstrated today as Britain's Princess Royal opened a new Learning Resource Centre at the University of Ulster in Derry.

The Prison Service in the North was today preparing to put into action contingency plans after it received rumours that a large number of prison officers would this morning call in sick as part of a long-running dispute with the government.

A civilian Ministry of Defence employee has been seriously injured in an explosion at a training ground near Magilligan prison in Co Derry.