Juvenile centre a ‘warehouse for crime’

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell is using St Patrick’s Institution as a “warehouse for young people” where they can learn the finer points of crime, the Prison Inspector claimed yesterday.

Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen rejected the use of holding cells in Mountjoy Jail, saying they should “never be used” for eating or sleeping.

His visit to Mountjoy took place before the murder of Gary Douch, who was killed in an overcrowded holding cell in the prison earlier this month.