Irish Prison Service to spend over €440,000 to research mental health needs of inmates

At the beginning of this year, there were 2,000 Irish prison inmates waiting to be seen by a psychologist.

The Irish Prison Service is set to spend up to €442,000 on a research project to understand the mental health and disability needs of the prison population in this country.

It has said that the current research on the prevalence of mental disorders among the prison population in Ireland is “dated and does not reflect the wide-ranging presentation of mental disorder within this population”.