Friday, February 3, 2017

Residents in Irish prisons

Yesterday at the Committee for Public Accounts in the Oireachtas the Director General of the prison service said that our prisons are the asylums of the 21st century with 70 per cent of prisoners with mental health problems. 

Even though it's 2017, Irish society still institutionalises those who are poor, different, odd and mentally ill.  

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