Central Prisons

Cyprus Central Prisons news on conditions, inmate welfare, security, investigations and reform, including detention policy and institutional accountability.

Local

Prison officer hurt breaking up inmates’ fight at Central Prisons

A prison officer was taken to hospital after an inmate allegedly hit her as she tried to break up...
Local

New prisons chief vows no one will be above the law

Retired brigadier Giorgos Ioannou formally took over as permanent director of the Prisons Department on Monday, pledging equal treatment...
Local

2013 Ayia Napa murder victim’s family says killer freed without notice

The family of a man shot dead in Ayia Napa in 2013 says it was not told that his...
Local

Animal welfare society to fund cat neutering at Central Prisons

The Cyprus Society for the Protection of Animals has agreed to pay for the neutering of cats at the...
Local

Four wings, clinic and prayer rooms: draft plans for new prison revealed

The Justice Ministry is planning a new prison at Agios Sozomenos with room for at least 1,500 inmates, to...
Photos

Costa Rican President Fernandez visits mega-prison in El Salvador

Inmates watch from a cell during the visit of Costa Rican President Laura Fernandez to the Terrorism Confinement Center...
Local

Cyprus prisons face mounting crisis as reoffending rate reaches 43.69%

George Ioannou, Cyprus's former military attaché to the United States, will take over as director of the Central Prisons...
Local

Justice minister targets end-2027 start for new prison construction

Justice Minister Costas Fytiris said on Thursday that a final decision on building Cyprus's new prison at Agios Sozomenos...
Local

Cost to tip the balance on new Agios Sozomenos prison

Justice Minister Costas Fytiris and the mayors of the municipalities affected by plans for a new prison at Agios...
Local

Abandoned Agios Sozomenos picked as new site for Cyprus Central Prisons

The government has scrapped Mathiatis as the site for its new prison and will build the facility instead on...
Local

Menogeia site to become Cyprus’s central police detention centre

Cyprus's Justice and Public Order Ministry has finalised plans to convert the former migrant detention centre in Menogeia into...
Local

Medical Association to review doctors over prison sick leave cases

The Justice Ministry has sent the Cyprus Medical Association a list of doctors who granted prison guards sick leave...
Opinion

Fourteen years and counting…

How easy it is for inmates at our Central Prisons to stay in touch with the outside world has...
Load more

Latest News

All News