Justice imprisoned: How a report with implications for prison officer safety met with delays and inaction

After an independent investigation concluded that three prison officers had undermined senior colleagues, possibly putting their safety in danger, by making disparaging and untrue comments about them to some of the most dangerous criminals in the State, the investigator’s report was  retained in headquarters,  without follow-up actions, for eight months, reports Michael Clifford

One senior prison officer gave evidence to the Naughton investigation that when he started on the block in June 2018, one of the basic-grade officers told him soon after his arrival: 'We do not like you; we did not send for you; we do not want you; you won’t be staying. We will run you out of A Block.'

In May 2019, Freddie Thompson made a complaint to the governor of Portlaoise Prison. 

Thompson is serving a life sentence after being found guilty of murder, at the Special Criminal Court in 2018. He was considered to be a major player in the Kinahan crime cartel and was once known as 'Fat Freddie'.