Two separate investigations are underway after a male prisoner escaped from custody whilst attending University Hospital Limerick, this afternoon.

An alleged sex offender who was born male but now identifies as female is being detained in the women’s prison in Limerick, the minister for justice has confirmed.

There was a major security incident in Portlaoise Prison last weekend when a prisoner in a high-security wing was not accounted for at evening lock-up and had to later approach prison officers and ask to be put into his cell.

A murderer who went on the run in Northern Ireland has been recaptured.

A Texas inmate set for execution this evening is waiting to hear if a rare clemency recommendation to spare his life at the urging of his father will be accepted.

A convicted killer who died after drinking hooch was heard singing in his prison cell, an inquest heard.

A prisoner on leave has gunned down five people in a rampage in the central Iranian city of Arak, state television has reported.

An exemplary prisoner who worked on a programme to reduce prison violence has been jailed for four years for possession of €1.4 million worth of heroin writes Isabel Hayes.

Samir Kantar, a Lebanese who was convicted of one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history and spent nearly three decades in prison, has been killed in an Israeli air strike near the Syrian capital, the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group said.

A Yemeni prisoner at the US base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba appears to have been the victim of mistaken identity, suspected of being a significant member of al Qaeda and not just a low-level Islamic fighter, officials said in documents.

The letter then provides a phone number for the author’s brother and claims his wife, who is also imprisoned, has been beaten.

A prisoner remains on the loose after escaping from Ennis District Court yesterday.

A prisoner who has died after being found unconscious in the Midlands Prison this morning has been named as Michael Keating.

A prisoner has died after being found unresponsive in the Midlands Prison this morning.

Providing a prisoner who had carried out 150 attacks on staff with cake and minerals on his birthday and €65 for “a party” was described as outrageous by the president of the Prison Officers’ Association.

A man hunt has been launched following the escape of a prisoner from Bray Circuit Court.