Michael Clifford: A whole different kind of craziness unfolding in Portlaoise Prison

Freddie Thompson, a criminal closely associated with the Kinahan crime cartel, has made a second complaint about a junior prison officer who has already been found to have put colleagues lives’ in danger.  Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Crazy things happen in prisons. It’s the nature of the institution. 

But a whole different kind of craziness is now unfolding in Portlaoise Prison, centred on the block that houses some of the most notorious criminals in the state.