Mentally ill inmate slept in jail car park

A MAN with psychiatric problems who was given temporary release from Cork Prison on Tuesday slept in the prison car park because he had nowhere else to go.

Mentally ill inmate slept in jail car park

The man, believed to be in his 20s and from Cork, slept in the prison car park on Tuesday night.

He was spotted on a roof adjoining the prison on Thursday morning trying to regain entry to the prison.

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