Hidden Ireland’s latest refuge — the prison system

A MAN is beaten to death while in the ‘care of the State’. And we learn from media reports that our prison system is a hotbed of physical, sexual and emotional abuse.

Now where we have heard those words before? Answer: in heart-rending reports of abuse in orphanages and ‘correctional’ institutions in what has come to be known as the Hidden Ireland.

And in media references to the thousands of cases that have come before the Residential Institutions Redress Board.