THE justice system has been accused of failing to protect its staff after a violent convict who threatened to kill a prison warden during his trial for assaulting the official was sentenced to the same jail where his target works.

Fiachra O’Cionnaith examines the Prison Chaplains’ annual report

PRISON overcrowding has reached such dangerous levels that it is now the central factor in violence among inmates as well as a surging drug culture and the ongoing failure to rehabilitate those convicted of crimes.