Inmates fear gangs in Mountjoy Prison

Gang culture is posing such a threat at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin that up to one in four inmates are seeking to be confined to a solitary cell for their own protection.

Inmates fear gangs in Mountjoy Prison

The Mountjoy Prison Visiting Committee said that, in the absence of improvements in feuds in communities the prisoners come from, the protection problem was “likely to persist”.

The Mountjoy committee report was one of 14 reports for 2016 published on each of the country’s jails.

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