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The Prison Officers' Association (POA) is a trade union representing prison officers in Ireland. The union was founded in 1947 by prison officers working at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin . Although it gradually established branches at other prisons, progress was slow, and the Mountjoy branch committee continued to run the union's national operation.
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 term "prison officer" is used for the role in the UK [2] and Ireland. [3] It is the official English title in Denmark, [4] Finland, [5] Sweden [6] and Poland. [7] The term "corrections officer" or "correction officer" is used in the U.S. [8] [9] and New Zealand. [10] The term "correctional police officer" or "CPO" is used in New Jersey.
Prison Officer Brian Samuel Armour 48 HMP Maze IRA: Brian was Vice-Chairman of the Prison Officer's Association. He was killed when a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car as he drive through Belfast. In 1990, a former Principal Officer John Hanna was jailed for life for aiding and abetting the killing and conspiring to kill other colleagues.
In 1928, the Minister for Justice of the Irish Free State, Kevin O'Higgins, dissolved by statutory instrument the General Prisons Board, which had been established in the pre-independence era to manage the Irish prison system. [1] Thus, the responsibility for the management of the Irish prison system devolved to the minister and his department. [2]
St. Patrick's Institution, North Circular Road, Dublin 7, was an Irish penal facility for 16- to 21-year-old males. It had a capacity of 217 beds and had an average inmate population of 221 in 2009. It had a capacity of 217 beds and had an average inmate population of 221 in 2009.
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Built in 1848, it operated as an adult prison from 1848, a borstal from 1921, and a young offenders institution from 1988. A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom, several member states of the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. In India, such a detention centre is known as a borstal school.