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It is also the committal prison for females committed on remand or sentenced from all Courts outside the Munster area of Ireland. [1] Dóchas is one of two women's prisons in Ireland, the other is located in Limerick Prison. [2] It has a staff of 88 not including teachers, chaplains, nurses, probation and welfare, doctors, psychiatrists and ...
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Armagh Prison. HM Prison Armagh, also known as Armagh Gaol, is a former prison in Armagh, Northern Ireland. The construction of the prison began in 1780 to a design of Thomas Cooley and it was extended in the style of Pentonville Prison in the 1840 and 1850s. For most of its working life Armagh Gaol was the primary women's prison in Ulster ...
As of February 2021, the prison population in Ireland was 3,729. [12] In December 2020, the incarceration rate was approximately 73 per 100,000 inhabitants. [12] The proportions in the prison population are; 17.6% are pre-trial and remand prisoners, 4.2% are females, 1.0% are under the age of 18, and 13.3% of the prisoners are foreign.
The only women's prison in Northern Ireland, Armagh Prison was built in the late eighteenth century and had served as a holding place for Irish republican prisoners. [5] In 1975, the population of Irish republican women prisoners reached a high of 120; but a population between 60 and 70 was more common, usually women under the age of 25. [5]
The SNP’s Joanna Cherry said she was concerned over the case of rapist Isla Bryson who has been sent to Cornton Vale women’s prison. Putting transgender rapist in women’s jail raises safety ...
Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “83 per cent of the women locked up in this prison built for young men had mental health problems, all against a pervasive background of ...
Adjacent to Wheatfield Prison, with which it shares many services, Cloverhill was opened in 1999. It is a purpose-built remand prison and houses most of the remand prisoners in the state. [2] It and the Dóchas Centre, a women's prison, hold 90 per cent of persons detained under processes of administration detention for immigration related ...