Resistance to ministers plan for prisons grows

The Minster for Justice, Michael McDowell, wants to close Spike Island, in Cork, and the Curragh, in Co Kildare.

Resistance to ministers plan for prisons grows
Tue, 11 Nov, 2003 - 15:26

Plans to close two major Irish prisons are being fiercely resisted.

The Prison Officers Association and the Irish Penal Reform Trust have labelled the plan as absurd.

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