Jail sentences for some serious crimes could be reduced under a government review aimed at tackling the prison overcrowding ...

A CARLOW man who pleaded guilty to having a knife outside a pub while he was drunk was given a custodial sentence last week ...

The sentencing review is expected to consider scrapping short-term custodial sentences in favour of community sentences ...

The appeals court heard how Stokes had struggled since retiring from football and developed an addiction to cocaine.

Dr Stephanie Wallace guest posts on making better use of non-custodial sentences using the Sentence Severity Scale.

Ex-Republic of Ireland footballer Anthony Stokes has avoided jail on appeal for a cocaine seizure and a high car chase in ...

French prosecutors in the embezzlement trial of Marine Le Pen, France’s hard-Right leader, have demanded she get a jail ...

“At the very young age she sought to ‘forge’ a pathway in the medical field.” Those were the words of the attorney ...

Ex-Republic of Ireland footballer Anthony Stokes has avoided jail on appeal for a cocaine seizure and a high speed car chase ...

“There is going to be a custodial sentence imposed,” Judge Aylmer said. “Given that this involved the penetration of a child ...

Smolders, 45, was killed after Earhart struck him with his Dodge Dakota pickup truck while Smolders was cycling on Calvert Drive and Mayfair Road in Adelaide-Metcalfe, not far from his home, during ...