Prison Service splurges on sports gear

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Prison Service splurges on sports gear

Yesterday, the Irish Prison Service (IPS) confirmed a taxpayer-funded splurge on a whole range of sports equipment for the prison population which includes murderers, gangland bosses, fraudsters, and robbers.

In response to a freedom of information request, the Department of Justice has confirmed that prisoners at the country’s best known prison, Dublin’s Mountjoy campus, own a total of 55 Playstation consoles. However, Playstation-owning inmates across the prison system are about to be given more reason to tear themselves away from the virtual goings on of Grand Theft Auto and play a whole range of sports.

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