Violent inmates ‘not rewarded with luxuries’
Mr Donnellan said that while it might be easier to inflict an “authoritarian regime” on inmates, the Irish Prison Service had a responsibility to try and reduce the likelihood of reoffending.
He was responding to comments made by the Prison Officers’ Association at their annual conference in Athlone — including in relation to what they said was a €100,000 “horticultural garden” for the most notorious of criminals in Midlands Prison.
