Dying Midlands prisoner ‘should have had hospice place’ - inspector

The prison watchdog has expressed serious concern how a prisoner at the Midlands Prison with a terminal illness died in his cell when a hospice setting had been recommended by medical staff.

The Inspector of Prisons, Patricia Gilheaney, said the treatment of terminally-ill prisoners in the custody of the Irish Prison Service and allowing them to be cared in a hospice was a very important issue.