Report details allegations of 'inappropriate relationships' between women and male staff at Dóchas centre

An explosive new report published by the Department of Justice is reporting allegations of “inappropriate relationships” between some women prisoners at the Dóchas centre in Dublin “and a small number of male staff”.

The allegations are contained in the just-published annual report by the Visiting Committee for 2017 for the country’s only dedicated women’s prison in the Mountjoy campus.