Castlerea Prison

Castlerea Prison is a closed, medium security facility in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon. It houses male prisoners from 17 years of age or more. It has a bed capacity of 351 and in 2009 its daily average number of resident inmates was 306.[1]

History

Castlerea was established as part of the system of district mental hospitals in 1939. Operating intermittently as a tuberculosis sanitorium, it continued to function as a hospital until 1994 when it was closed. It was renamed St. Patrick's Hospital during the 1960s. From 1996 it opened as prison accepting a small intake of inmates that year. Construction work on the main cell blocks of the prison was completed in 1998.[2]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Irish Prison Service (2010). Annual Report (PDF). Dublin. pp. 10–12.
  2. ↑ Irish Prisons Inspectorate (2005). Castlerea Prison Inspection: 2nd - 9th June 2004 (PDF). Dublin.


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