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The Midlands Prison (Irish: Príosún Lár na Tíre) is a medium security prison in Portlaoise, County Laois.It receives prisoners who are aged 17 years and over. It has a bed capacity of 870 and its daily average number of inmates resident in 2009 was 512.
Midlands Prison [25] Portlaoise, County Laois 2000 Closed Medium 17+ None Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Westmeath: 875 0 814 0 Loughan House [26] County Cavan: 1973 Open Low 18+ None National 140 0 105 0 Shelton Abbey [27] Arklow, County Wicklow: 1973 Open Low 19+ None National 115 0 93 0
Portlaoise Prison (Irish: Príosún Phort Laoise) is a maximum security prison in Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland.Until 1929 it was called the Maryborough Gaol. [1] It should not be confused with the Midlands Prison, which is a newer, medium security prison directly beside it; or with Dunamaise Arts Centre, which was the original Maryborough Gaol built c. 1789.
A corrections officer at a Midlands prison was hospitalized Thursday after he was stabbed in the head, the S.C. Department of Corrections said in a post on X.
County Laois (/ l iː ʃ / LEESH; Irish: Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster. It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. [3] The modern county takes its name from Loígis, a medieval kingdom. Historically, it has also been known as County Leix.
Portlaoise [2] (/ p ɔːr t ˈ l iː ʃ / port-LEESH), [3] or Port Laoise (Irish pronunciation: [ˌpˠɔɾˠt̪ˠˈl̪ˠiːʃə]), is the county town of County Laois, Ireland. It is located in the South Midlands in the province of Leinster. Portlaoise was the fastest growing of the top 20 largest towns and cities in Ireland from 2011 to 2016. [4]
Within months, local judges were hearing complaints about abusive staff, prison-like conditions and food full of maggots, according to recent interviews and state audits and court transcripts from the time. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Tom Petersen drove an hour and a half to Pahokee in 1997 and started snapping pictures.
It is the first federal prison in Brazil, designed to receive prisoners deemed too dangerous to be kept in the states' prison systems. Campo Grande Federal Penitentiary ( Campo Grande , Mato Grosso do Sul , Brazil) - It houses the most dangerous prisoners in the country, as Fernandinho Beira-Mar , the Colombian trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez ...