VIDEO & PICS: New era dawns for Cork's new €42m state-of-the-art prison facility

The transfer of prisoners from Cork jail to the new prison facility will be the biggest in the history of the State, and the improved conditions will contribute to prisoners’ wellbeing and subsequent reintegration to society, governor Pat Dawson tells Eoin English

INMATES at one of the State’s oldest prisons will be transferred to the country’s newest jail — a €42m state-of-the-art facility — within weeks.

A major security and logistics operation is now being planned to facilitate the relocation on February 12 of about 150 inmates from the old Cork Prison on Rathmore Rd, which dates from the 1820s, a few hundred metres to the new jail which has been built over the last 20 months on a six-acre site.