'The idea that people are having a great time in prison is a bit of a fallacy'

Shelton Abbey in Co Wicklow operates as a low-security prison.

The biggest problem facing long-term inmates when they return to society is how life on the outside has “moved on without them”, the governor of one of Ireland’s two open prisons has said.

Joseph Donohue has been governor of Shelton Abbey Centre in Arklow, Co Wicklow, for the past seven years.