New moves to end prison overcrowding

Prisoners in Ireland will no longer be forced into overcrowded prisons and subjected to the daily humiliation of 'slopping out', under new proposals announced today.

New moves to end prison overcrowding

Prisoners in Ireland will no longer be forced into overcrowded prisons and subjected to the daily humiliation of 'slopping out', under new proposals announced today.

Justice Minister John O’Donoghue told prison service representatives that a new building programme for the prisons would bring conditions up-to-date.

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