Prison isolates inmates on ‘dirty protest’

PRISON officers have isolated inmates carrying out a “dirty protest” in Cork Prison in a bid to thwart their attempt at throwing the jail’s punishment unit into chaos.

Three prisoners are involved in the disruption on the D wing, where guards are wearing boiler suits and breathing masks to prevent infection from excrement the prisoners have smeared on cell walls.

The inmates, two from Limerick and one from Cork, are all in their late 20s.