Over €1.3m to be spent on new clothing for prisoners in Irish jails

The State is to spend over €1.3m on new clothing and footwear for the country’s prison population over the next four years.

A contract notice has been issued by the Office of Government Procurement for tenders to supply a range of 28 different types of clothing and footwear for inmates in the 14 detention facilities operated by the Irish Prison Service including Mountjoy and Portlaoise and the two female prisons in the Dóchas Centre and Limerick.