‘Slopping out’ to be eliminated by 2016

The practice of prisoners “slopping out” will be “gone forever” by early 2016, the prisons boss has said.

Victorian scenes of inmates in cramped cells going to the toilet in front of each other, even as they eat, will end, Prison Service director general Michael Donnellan stated.

Watchdogs have repeatedly condemned the practice, which still continues in Cork, Limerick, Mountjoy, and Portlaoise prisons.