Mountjoy separation unit has ‘air of neglect’

Inmates under protection in Mountjoy are kept in "unacceptable" conditions, fuelling "obvious tension" in the prison’s separation unit.

The Inspector of Prisons also said the continuing detention of a small number of 17-year-olds on remand in St Patrick’s Institution was “certainly inhumane”.

In a report on the Mountjoy Prison Campus, retired judge Michael Reilly praised the refurbishment of the main building and said the atmosphere there had “changed dramatically”.