The Prison Officers' Association (POA) is a trade union representing prison officers in Ireland. The union was founded in 1947 by prison officers working...

The Prison Officers' Association may refer to: POA (trade union), based in the UK, formerly known as the "Prison Officers' Association Prison Officers' Association...

and the Balmoral Show. Much like officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, prison officers in Northern Ireland remain under a severe level of...

may refer to: Pakistan Olympic Association POA (trade union), for UK prison officers Prison Officers' Association (Ireland) Russian Liberation Army Poa...

Prison art is art that is created by persons who are imprisoned. Prison art is unique in several ways. Due to the low social status of prisoners, art...

prisons within England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own prison services: the Scottish Prison Service and the Northern Ireland Prison...

Maze Prison escape (known to Irish republicans as the Great Escape) took place on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. HM Prison Maze...

slavery: prisons, police and gendarmerie posts were blown up with dynamite or put to the torch.” Prisoners in battle who were not officers were typically...

Portlaoise Prison (Irish: Príosún Phort Laoise) is a maximum security prison in Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland. Until 1929 it was called the Maryborough...

HM Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as the Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to...

Prisons in Ireland are one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both for the commission of an indictable offense and other offenses. In...

Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers, also known as the Prison Officers' Association (POA), is a trade union in...

became one of the prison's highest-ranking officers. Northern Ireland's 3,000 prison officers were responsible for "the most dangerous prison population in...

fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings. Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard...

Tang dynasties. The practice continued through the early Middle Ages. The Irish High King Niall of the Nine Hostages got his epithet Noígiallach because...

Workers Operative Plasterers and Allied Trades Society of Ireland Prison Officers' Association (Ireland) Prospect Public and Commercial Services Union Public...

The Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland (ACPO) was a not-for-profit private limited company that for many years...

hospital. He was the only officer in the Irish Prison Service to be killed in connection with the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Political controversy arose...

The Irish Army, also known within Ireland simply as the Army (Irish: an tArm), is the land component of the Defence Forces of Ireland. The Irish Army has...

Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape occurred on 31 October 1973 when three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped from Mountjoy Prison in...

wing, around the whole prison to stop drones and parcels being received. Mike Rolfe, chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, said: We've been warning...

maximum (ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison, or a unit within prisons, which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain...

Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze Prison (also known as "Long Kesh")...

firearms was governed by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO, dissolved 2015). Firearms used by police officers vary between police forces in...

reappointed to run HM Prison Downview a few weeks later. It was also noted that cell call buzzers had been sabotaged by prison officers so as not to be disturbed...

the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, all PSNI officers are routinely armed while on duty, with officers also permitted to carry firearms while...

damage to cells and offices, with prison officers forced to retreat to safety. Mike Rolfe of the Prison Officers Association blamed severe staff shortage and...

republican prisoners at Maghaberry Prison. It added that the officer was targeted because he trained prison officers at Maghaberry. In April 2016, Gardaí...

Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze prison (also known as "Long Kesh")...

conditions had worsened in Birmingham Prison where around 11% of inmates had claimed to have been assaulted by prison officers. One particular incident involved...