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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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Women's prisons in Ireland" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Dóchas Centre
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 1878 General Prisons (Ireland) Act reorganised the prisons in Cork. The Cork City Gaol became a women's gaol (for Cork City and Cork County) and the Cork County Gaol near University College Cork became the men's gaol (for Cork City and Cork County). On the day the change came into effect, male prisoners were marched out of the Sunday's Well ...
Northern Ireland Prison Service HM Prison Hydebank Wood , also known as Hydebank Wood College and Women's Prison , [ 1 ] is a women's prison and young offender's centre located in South Belfast . Young male offenders
A prison cell during the dirty protest. The dirty protest (also called the no wash protest) [1] was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze Prison (also known as "Long Kesh") and a protest at Armagh Women's Prison in Northern Ireland.
This followed the closure of the women's prison at HMP Armagh. The male part of the prison became fully operational on 2 November 1987. Following the closure of HMP Belfast on 31 March 1996, Maghaberry became the adult committal prison in Northern Ireland. Two new accommodation blocks were opened in 1999.