Cloverhill Prison

Cloverhill Prison is located on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates resident in 2009 was 438.[1]

History

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 issues.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Irish Prison Service (2010). Annual Report. Dublin. pp. 10–12.
  2. ↑ Inspectorate of Irish Prisons (2006). Cloverhill Prison Inspection: 22nd - 29th November 2005. Dublin.
  3. ↑ Immigration-related detention in Ireland