Prison security systems violate data law, DPC rules

An officer in Castlerea Prison complained about the system to both management at the prison and his union, the Prison Officers Association, in early 2019. 

The Prison Service is illegally compelling prison officers to provide thumbprints in order to operate security systems, the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has found.

Officers in two prisons must provide thumbprints in order to open security gates within the prisons as part of a system that was originally designed to be rolled out for all 13 prisons in the State.