Report condemns imprisonment of females in North

A DAMNING report into the detention of women and girls in a prison was issued by the North’s province’s Human Rights Commission yesterday.

It attacked “endemic failures” in the regime under which girls as young as 14 were held at Mourne House inside top security Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim.

It said the transfer in June this year of female inmates to accommodation at a male young offenders’ centre was “entirely inappropriate”.