Mountjoy grappling with an 'overcrowding crisis', says governor

Mountjoy governor David Treacy said the crisis is replicated across the prison system. Picture: Moya Nolan

The governor of Mountjoy Prison has said he is grappling with an “overcrowding crisis”, with 922 inmates in a prison with maximum official capacity for 755 people.

David Tracey said the crisis is replicated across the prison system, with Limerick's male and female prisons, Cork Prison, and Dóchas Women’s Prison also severely overcrowded.