Bad behaviour in jail ‘not rewarded’

The man who heads up Irish jails said yesterday that “a humane prison service is about trying to take people who are broken and build them back up again”.

Michael Donnellan also asserted that bad behaviour by inmates is not rewarded.

The director general of the Irish Prison Service said: “Absolutely not. As a prison service we need to reward good behaviour and punish bad behaviour and all our programmes and all the work we do is to discourage prisoners from violence.