Mountjoy prisoner launches appeal against decision to discipline him
An inmate at Mountjoy prison has commenced a High Court challenge against the decision to discipline him for setting fire to netting placed around the prison to prevent contraband from being thrown into the jail.
Jonathan Cummins (aged 25), who has served more than a year of a three and a half year sentence, has brought an action against both the Governor of Mountjoy Prison and the Irish Prison Service as a result of receiving a unfair punishment of six weeks loss of privileges for a breach of prison discipline that he says he had nothing to do with.
