"This has the potential to be a game changer and as a result will make prisons safer." Illicit drug use is key concern at NI prison The sniffer dogs tackling prison drug smuggling According to ...

A pensioner who subjected his disabled wife of more than 50 years to a “frankly harrowing” assault has been handed a five-month prison sentence.

Almost £600,000 in compensation was paid to prisoners in Northern Ireland’s jails in a five-year period. Inmates were recompensed after filing hundreds of claims, including for personal injury ...

Naomi Long has come under fire from women's groups after saying that male-born prisoners could be housed in the Northern Ireland's female jail.

But because of spiralling costs, the NI Prison Service, run by Mrs Long’s justice department, decided to proceed with the Kitchen and Cafe as a separate project. The department believes that the ...

In July 2023 she visited northeastern Syria to inspect the Kurdish-run prisons and camps holding tens of thousands of foreign I-S suspects and their families, including at least 55 Australians.