OVERCROWDING in Mountjoy jail has been blamed for tension, fights, drug abuse and even deaths among prisoners and now its latest crime seems to be that it squeezed out John Lonergan.

A PRISONER’S face was slashed after he was taken hostage by fellow inmates in the latest escalation of the overcrowding crisis at Mountjoy Jail.

A mentally ill man has been sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of his Mountjoy prison cellmate.

A prison officer and an inmate from Mountjoy were hospitalised today in the second violent incident in the jail this week.

PRISON has been described by the Irish Penal Reform Trust as the worst possible place for a person with schizophrenia and a “powder keg” for people with psychiatric problems after a 25-year-old Dubliner, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder, was found guilty of the manslaughter of a fellow Mountjoy inmate.

A Mountjoy prisoner who beat his 20-year-old cellmate to death has been found not guilty of his murder, but guilty of his manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

A Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering his cellmate told detectives he killed him with “three digs, three kicks and a stamping” before rubbing excrement in his face.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court to try the case of a Mountjoy prisoner accused of murdering his cellmate.

A date has been set for the trial of the man accused of murdering Gary Douche in Mountjoy Prison two years ago.

Another jury will be sworn in next week for the trial of a Dublin man accused of murdering fellow prisoner Gary Douche in Mountjoy, it emerged this afternoon.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering Gary Douche in Mountjoy Prison two years ago has been discharged after it emerged that a jury member may have been from the same area as the victim.

A jury has been sworn in at the Central Criminal Court for the trial of a man accused of murdering a fellow inmate in Mountjoy Prison two years ago.

THE killing of Gary Douche in Mountjoy prison calls out for a more far-reaching response from the Government than the limited inquiry set up by the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell.