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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.
New IRA. Prison Officer and Orange Order member [1][2] David Black was killed on 1 November 2012 by members of the New IRA. [3] The group claimed the killing 11 days later. [4] He was the first prison officer to be killed by dissident Irish republicans since the Good Friday Agreement. [5]
Christopher John Hanna. Christopher John Hanna (c. 1947 – 27 December 1992), was a prison officer who held a senior position inside the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland. In June 1990 he was sentenced to life imprisonment at Maghaberry for helping the Provisional IRA kill colleague Brian Armour two years previously.
The Prison Service is responsible for providing prison services in Northern Ireland. Its main statutory duties are set out in the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (c. 18 (N.I.)) and rules made under the act. Prior to partition, prisons in Ireland were administered by the Prison Board of Ireland.
Shooting of Brian Stack. Brian Stack (1935/1936 — 29 September 1984), the chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, was shot in the neck in 1983 by members of the Provisional IRA [1] and died after 18 months in hospital. He was the only officer in the Irish Prison Service to be killed in connection with the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service Medal was established by Royal Warrant on 15 January 2002. Agreed to in principle by the Queen in 2000, the medal was created to recognise Northern Ireland Prison Service personnel who had served in the "difficult and often dangerous conflict" during the Troubles. [2] This included the murder of 28 prison ...
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 maximum number of prisoners the system can handle is 4,273; the prisons in Ireland are 87.5% full. For 2017, the rates in pre-trial and female prisons both went up ...
She had joined the Northern Ireland Prison Service in January 1979 and was the first female Prison Officer to be killed in the Troubles. [ 17 ] 2 June – Alan Dunne (36), an off-duty member of the RUC, and David Stinson (32), a civilian , both Protestants , were shot dead by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) while standing outside ...