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Human Rights abuses in Mountjoy Jail

  • 08-11-2007 11:04pm
    #1
    johnnyskeleton
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    Mountjoy jail has been severly criticised for it's human rights abuses, both domestically and internationally.

    If a prisoner was to sue the prison service for an alleged assault on him by a prison officer, could the prisoner claim exemplary/punitive damages for breaches of the ECHR?

    Is the prisoner more likely to be believed in the light of the human rights abuses?

    Could the prisoner seek a mandatory injunction to have him transferred to another penal institution as even Cloverhill is a much better place to be in than Mountjoy?

    If the person was given a custodial sentence for, e.g. an unpaid TV licence, could he aruge that he should have been put in a separate wing (i.e. with other TV licence renegades and those who defy the dog licencing laws) rather than with all the junkies, rapists, and junkie-rapists?


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  • #2
    Victor
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    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    If the person was given a custodial sentence for, e.g. an unpaid TV licence, could he aruge that he should have been put in a separate wing (i.e. with other TV licence renegades and those who defy the dog licencing laws) rather than with all the junkies, rapists, and junkie-rapists?
    Aren't short-term and remand prisoners treated differently anyway?


  • #3
    besty
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    Victor wrote: »
    Aren't short-term and remand prisoners treated differently anyway?

    There are separate wings according to the nature of offence. I remember being on a tour in there and the officer told us they are split into sex offenders/drug users etc.


  • #4
    Lockstep
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    Sex offendor wing,
    oh if the tabloids got their hands on them.


  • #5
    pback1
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    Speaking of Mountjoy, have conditions improved. Are prisoners in for non -violent crimes kept away from those who cause trouble. Are drugs still everywhere, how violent is it or is a lot of this stuff urbsan myth?


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