Attitude to mentally ill inmates ‘inhumane’

THE Inspector of Prisons has launched another attack on the Department of Justice, branding its attitude to prisoners with less severe mental health problems as “unchristian, inhumane and self-serving.”

Former High Court Judge Dermot Kinlen made the comments in a report into Castlerea Prison, which was published earlier this week.

While much of the attention focused on paramilitary inmates held in the Grove area of the prison, Mr Kinlen used the report to comment on the treatment of inmates suffering mental health problems.