Far too many people fail to reenter society after prison because they lack a safe place to sleep and an address to put on an ...

Michael Fassbender has done sci-fi, sword-and-sandal and slasher movies. But his latest role, as the IRA hunger striker Bobby ...

In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local ...

WUWM's Maria Peralta-Arellano participated in a U.S. Justice Department-based simulation about what it’s like to start from scratch when get out of prison and find yourself on community supervision.

At the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s Ian Bownes, a young trainee psychiatrist in Northern Ireland, was sent into the notorious H blocks in Belfast’s Maze prison to assess if its ...

Paul Brady likes to say that Tina Turner bought his house and Bonnie Raitt pays his pension: his songs have been covered by ...

If Volodymyr Zelensky wants a sympathetic ear as he tries to find a path to peace, he could do worse than turning to Baroness Foster, a woman who has spent much of her life in the toughest of ...

Plans to regenerate the site near Lisburn have been in limbo for almost 12 years due to a political row.

Bryan Gregory, interim chief executive of the Maze Long Kesh Development ... Pacemaker Press Republican IRA and INLA inmates died during a hunger strike in the prison in 1981 In 2013, Stormont's ...

He was the IRA commander in the Maze prison during the 1981 hunger strikes. McFarlane was imprisoned there for his part in a 1975 IRA attack at a pub in the Protestant Shankill Road area of Belfast.

He was subsequently one of 38 IRA prisoners who escaped from the Maze Prison in Co Antrim in 1983. Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane’s daughter Tina speaks to mourners beside his coffin outside the ...