Prison officers 'call you ape, call you monkey': Foreign nationals victims of racial abuse in jail

A Nigerian prisoner revealed prison staff ‘treat you like, you know, like something wrong with our skin’.

Forming relationships with prison staff and fellow inmates is challenging for some foreign national prisoners because of racial prejudice, language barriers, and segregation based on nationality, according to a new report.

Researchers from the School of Law and Criminology at Maynooth University interviewed 82 foreign nationals who were in eight prisons across the State.