Slopping out buckets shared in Limerick prison

INMATES at Limerick Prison are still sharing slopping out buckets, staying in cells which smell of sewage, and facing 150%-plus capacity levels despite assurances the issues would be addressed over a year ago.

A scathing update report has identified a litany of sub-standard conditions which critics have claimed are inhumane and degrading.

In a highly critical 46-page document drawn up on November 25 and published yesterday, Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly, said that, based on a number of announced and unannounced visits to the prison over a nine-month period, he was in no doubt that recommendations in his 2010 annual report on Irish prisons had not been addressed.