‘More drugs than sweets’ in prison tuck shop

MOUNTJOY Prison has “more drugs than sweets in the tuck shop”, according to the latest damning report by the jail’s visiting committee.

‘More drugs than sweets’ in prison tuck shop

Published yesterday on the Department of Justice website, the report for 2009 listed a catalogue of problems, including overcrowding and poor toilet facilities.

The Visiting Committee make a bitter joke that they could have resubmitted the 2008 report as “the regime remains largely the same”.

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