Cork Prison staff disciplined for filing ‘misleading’ records

Prison staff in Cork were disciplined after it was discovered they filed “misleading and inaccurate” records about the care afforded to a vulnerable inmate on the night he died.

The Irish Examiner yesterday revealed that the Prisons’ Watchdog reviewed CCTV footage which disproved records claiming that staff had checked on the 52-year-old married father four times an hour on January 2, 2017.

The Inspector of Prisons Helen Casey found six intervals wherein the prisoner was left unattended for more than 15 minutes on the night — the shortest of these being over half an hour.