Warning of ‘alarming’ rise in level of prison violence

THE level of violence in prisons is growing at “an alarming rate”, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) has claimed.

POA president Stephen Delaney said hardly a week goes by without “stabbings, assaults or worse” taking place.

Details of two separate incidents in Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison last weekend and another attack in Mountjoy in the last fortnight were highlighted at the POA annual conference.