Cork TD Ken O'Flynn has urged the government to turn to electronic tagging as an alternative to imprisonment for some offenders as soon as possible - as a way to reduce massive overcrowding in Ireland ...

IRAN’S iron-fist regime has gone on an execution spree while the eyes of the world are on its nuclear talks with the US, insiders say. At least 22 prisoners were killed last week in less ...

CAGED gang boss Glen ‘Mr Flashy’ Ward is trying to clear his name — over the theft of 18 bottles of wine from celebrity chef ...

The message from gardaí to young people was that there was nothing positive that Glen Ward and Eric O'Driscoll can offer them ...

Incarcerating prisoners serving abolished indefinite jail terms described as “psychological torture” cost British taxpayers £145m last year, The Independent can reveal. Analysis of official ...

LAHORE, April 19 (Reuters) - A Christian man accused of blasphemy in the eastern Pakistani town of Jaranwala will appeal against a death sentence handed down by an anti-terrorism court ...

Prosecutors had been seeking a six-year sentence for Kozyreva, Russian independent media channel, SOTA Vision, reported from inside the courtroom. Video footage by Reuters showed Kozyreva smiling ...

The family of Ronan Wilson have formally asked the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to appeal the sentence that was handed down to the nine-year-old’s killer. Ronan, from Kildress in Co ...

who are serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for the shotgun murders of their parents in 1989, be free? Instead, the proceedings were delayed after prosecutors asked the ...

A MAN who pleaded for a sentence for a minor theft thanked the judge when he was eventually sentenced to 11 months in jail. Matthew Rycroft (39) from Clonmullion, Athy was appearing in his local ...

A man who took a farm vehicle from the yard of a renowned Kilkenny-based racehorse trainer and then caused a witness to say his was ‘the worst driving I have ever seen’ has been given a suspended ...