Cork Prison inspected days before prisoner's ear bitten off in vicious assault

Prison will be judged on five key areas, including prisoner safety, health and wellbeing

Inmate was subjected to a vicious attack when another prisoner, believed to be his cellmate, bit his ear off. Picture: Dan Linehan

An inspection of Cork Prison was undertaken by the Office of the Inspectorate of Prisons (OIP) just days before a violent assault which left a prisoner with life-changing injuries.

The full inspection of the prison was the first to take place at Cork Prison since 2007 and forms part of the OIP’s new programme of regular unannounced full inspections of prisons in Ireland.