Internal report reveals overcrowding and verbal abuse at women's prison

The Dóchas Centre. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

Inmates in the State’s largest women’s prison are subjected to chronic overcrowding, xenophobic and threatening abuse, and find it next to impossible to book visits, including with their children, according to an internal report seen by the Irish Examiner.

The report into the Dóchas Centre in the Mountjoy campus is scathing of conditions in the prison following changes that were made last year.