A day in the life of Wheatfield Prison

In the second part of our series on the state of the Irish prison service, Cormac O’Keeffe meets the staff and inmates at Wheatfield Prison.

ALAN knows a thing or two about laundries. Temperatures, chemicals, cross-contamination — all the challenges of operating a laundry are on his mind.

That, and the fact that he is serving a life sentence, and only a little over two years have passed.