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It was officially called the County of Dublin Gaol, and was originally run by the Grand Jury for County Dublin. Originally, public hangings took place at the front of the prison. [2] However, from the 1820s onward very few hangings, public or private, took place at Kilmainham. [2] A small hanging cell was built in the prison in 1891.
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 was a closed, medium security prison.
[1] [2] Similarly, the management of the prison system within the Irish Free State passed to the control of the Minister with the dissolution by statutory instrument of the General Prisons Board for Ireland (the G.P.B.) in 1928. [3] The G.P.B. had been an all-Ireland body.
On 13 October 1923, Irish Republican prisoners in Mountjoy Prison began the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes, protesting being interned without charges or trial and poor prison conditions. Close to 500 men began the hunger strike in Mountjoy and the strike quickly spread to other camps and prisons with over 5,000 prisoners taking part nationwide. [2]
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 ...
Arbour Hill Prison (Irish: Príosún Chnoc an Arbhair) is a prison located in the Arbour Hill area near Heuston Station in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. The prison is the national centre for male sex offenders. [1] Adjacent to the prison are the Church of the Sacred Heart, the official church of the Irish Defence Forces, and its cemetery ...
Dublin, Ireland residents who bring a valid ID to the visitor's center in Dublin, Ohio, between March 8 and March 18 will receive a $200 Visa gift card intended to pay for their bar tab.
Wheatfield Place of Detention (Irish: Príosún Pháirc na Cruithneachta) is a closed, medium security prison located on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It receives male prisoners of 17 years of age and older from the counties of Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Wexford and Wicklow. It has a bed capacity of 430 and in 2009 the average daily ...