Over half of inmates ‘on prescription medication’

MORE than half of the inmates at Castlerea Prison in Co Roscommon are on “high dependency, mind-altering” prescription drugs.

The claim came from the Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly.

He said conditions in certain parts of the jail – including the use of cardboard chamber pots by inmates in shared cells – “could not be condoned in any civilised society”.