A new pilot project will allow prisoners at Dublin's Dóchas Centre and the Training Unit at Mountjoy Prison to receive phone calls directly to their cells from approved friends and family for the first time.

A report from the Dóchas Centre visiting committee, submitted to Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan, notes that overcrowding in the women's prison has reached its "worst" to date, leading to inhumane conditions.

Martina and Ammi Burke, mother and sister of Enoch Burke, are scheduled for release from the Dóchas Centre prison in Dublin tomorrow. They were jailed two weeks ago.