Watchdog calls for routine searches after unresponsive prisoner found with 22 heroin wraps

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The prison watchdog has called for regular routine and unannounced searches of prison cells after 22 wraps of heroin were found with a prisoner discovered in an unresponsive state in Mountjoy who subsequently died in hospital.

A new report by the Inspector of Prisons into the death of the unnamed, 31-year-old male, also criticises delays in fixing broken CCTV cameras in Mountjoy which, it claimed, compromised the security of prisoners.