Police called in to staff Derry jail after prison officers walk out

POLICE were called into the North’s Magilligan Prison yesterday after the majority of prison officers walked out.

The Northern Ireland Prison Service said it was over a dispute about a scheduled routine meeting of the prison service management board, which was due to be held in the prison last night.

A Prison Officers’ Association branch meeting yesterday passed a motion saying officers would withdraw from their posts for an emergency meeting if any members of the management board set foot in the jail.