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The justice ministry is forging ahead with the installation of a new system for deactivating mobile phones inside the Nicosia prisons in order to deal with the problem of organised ...

Proposals from the justice ministry to decongest prisons will be sent to the president next week, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Friday. “The president will assess the proposals that ...

The lawyer of prison director Anna Aristotelous and her deputy said that they may now file a case to the ECHR after the attorney general quashed a private criminal lawsuit. ...

The justice ministry on Tuesday appointed an acting prison director the simultaneous absence of the director and her deputy who are on sick leave until January 20. The temporary replacement is ...

Suicides in Italian jails have jumped to a 10-year high, the national ombudsman for prisoners said on Friday, noting that three years of the COVID-19 pandemic had made inmates’ lives ...

A system deactivating mobile phones within the fenced enclosure of the central prisons has been operating since 2020, blocking 3G and 4G technologies, the Department of Electrical and Mechanical Services (EMS) ...

Four criminal investigators tasked with investigating claims of drug pushing and mobile phone use in the prisons turned their report into the attorney-general on Friday. According to a post on ...

A report relating to allegations and counter-allegations between the central prisons director and the head of the Drugs Squad was handed over to the attorney-general on Thursday. The report was ...

The report on accusations made by prison director Anna Aristotelous against the head of the drugs squad (Ykan) will be submitted to the Attorney general within the next 10 days, the ...

Justice Minister Stephie Drakou on Wednesday hit back at allegations by a Cypriot MEP about surveillance at the Nicosia central prisons, calling them “misinterpretations” and saying the claims were unsubstantiated. ...

Prisons director Anna Aristotelous was called into the police headquarters on Thursday morning to submit statements in the recent case centered on charges of leaking classified information. She told reporters ...

The incident involving the alleged collusion of a senior police officer with an inmate at the central prisons currently under investigation brought to the forefront the prison department’s year ...

Juvenile crime remains very low in Cyprus, but we still need a designated detention centre A law establishing a criminal justice system catering to juvenile offenders was voted in a ...

The Prisons Department emerged among the top three organisations participating in the pan-European competition #Beinclusive EU Sport Award 2022 and won an award under the “Celebrating Diversity” category. The EU Commission ...

MPs have asked for the justice ministry’s positions regarding the use of electronic bracelets by defendants as they seek to move forward with an omnibus bill governing the operation ...

The human centered approach used at the Cyprus prison has led to reduced rates of reoffending, its director Anna Aristotelous said on Thursday. She said in recent years the number ...

Cyprus registered the fourth highest prison population density in Europe in 2020, new research has shown. According to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020, made ...