Gang culture is posing such a threat at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin that up to one in four inmates are seeking to be confined to a solitary cell for their own protection.

LAST summer, the Prison Service issued a stark warning that Mountjoy was liable to erupt.

THE mounting overcrowding problem in Irish prisons looks set to continue following official indications that the planned superprison at Thornton Hall will be delayed well beyond 2011.

PRISONERS in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison are living in deplorable conditions, a new report has found.