CONSTANT BATTLE
We have around 100 gangland lifers, 350 sex offenders, we’ve every spectrum of offence. It’s a...
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“The Midlands is a medium security prison made up of about 830 prisoners.
“We have around 100 gangland lifers, about 350 sex offenders, we’ve every spectrum of offence.”
Most of the 400 or so sex offenders serving time in Irish jails are behind bars at the 40-acre campus.
In November 2018 a new high-security unit was opened at the site for Ireland’s most violent and dangerous criminals.
These include psycho Celyn Eadon, 27, Homemade drink is confiscated Drugs in jail who knifed his mother Noreen to death, stabbing her 19 times in a frenzied attack.
He was transferred from Wheatfield in January after a string of vicious assaults on inmates and staff wearing riot gear.
He joins Alan Ellis, Leon Wright and Brendan Cummins.
Wright has attacked staff 25 times, while former boxing champ Cummins has carried out numerous assaults in Cloverhill, Mountjoy and Midlands jails.
Ellis, 26, was jailed for tying a 14-yearold to a radiator with a flex cable, Trashed cell in the jail which houses “Fat Freddie” Thompson and Graham Dwyer pouring boiling water down the boy’s trousers and skinning his knuckles, knees and fingertips with a cheese grater. In December he pleaded guilty to slicing a prison officer’s wrist with a blade stuck in a toothbrush. In the documentary Governor Gavin is seen disciplining an inmate who was caught with a “shiv” – a home-made bladed weapon – by denying him tuck shop privileges. A cell search uncovers 25 litres of hooch brewed using rice, fruit and water with one prison officer revealing: “This is pure alcohol. “It causes both prisoners and staff problems. “When they take it normally they have to be relocated because they tend to fight, maybe trash their cell. “That causes me to have to put staff into riot gear to go in.” Inside Ireland’s Biggest Prison: True Lives is on Virgin Media One on Wednesday at 9pm.
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