Opinions on the Dochas (women's prison)

Colash

Anybody know what the women's prison is really like ? I've been reading up on it on behalf of a friend who may be looking at a few months of a sentence .. Just wondering does anybody know people who have experienced the Dochas centre

snubbleste

They've got velvet sofas, lace tablecloths, doilies(!) and soft soft cushions

Diageio_Man

you may aswell just tell us what u did

OneArt

snubbleste wrote: »

They've got velvet sofas, lace tablecloths, doilies(!) and soft soft cushions

Oh my God. Doilies? F*cking hate those things, make the place look like an aul wan's house.

That'd scare me straight if I was a lady.

Colash

I was looking for a more realistic/ honest answer . Rather than the usual piss takers

ShamoBuc

Colash wrote: »

I was looking for a more realistic/ honest answer . Rather than the usual piss takers

in AH...:pac:

Kidchameleon

Colash wrote: »

I was looking for a more realistic/ honest answer . Rather than the usual piss takers

You came to the right place so.

Colash

Is there a prison thread ? Or section as I couldn't find it

Kidchameleon

Colash wrote: »

I was looking for a more realistic/ honest answer . Rather than the usual piss takers

Try the prison forum

returnNull

well there's two girls that run the beauticians and they specialise in the removal of black heads

Colash

returnNull wrote: »

well there's two girls that run the beauticians and they specialise in the removal of black heads

Haha that acutally is funny

Peregrine

They have pillow fights every night

mp22

Terrible place not fit for law abiding citizens.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/dochas-centre-shabby-says-report-230653.html

Odysseus

It is a hell of a lot better than Mountjoy, no overcrowding but you are still locked up. It is a very clean and modern facility, I think the access to educational and other activities is again better than the mens jail.

eviltwin

Afaik the "accommodation" ( for thats what they call it ) is almost like a private flat, the women get their own key and can come and go quite freely within reason. I'm sure the level of freedom depends on the crime that got you there in the first place though.

Custardpi

This documentary should give her a fair idea of what to expect.

mattjack

eviltwin wrote: »

Afaik the "accommodation" ( for thats what they call it ) is almost like a private flat, the women get their own key and can come and go quite freely within reason. I'm sure the level of freedom depends on the crime that got you there in the first place though.

The women get their own key to the prison ?

eviltwin

mattjack wrote: »

The women get their own key to the prison ?

just to their "room", even the language used is gas, it seems they want to do everything they can to make the inmates feel they are in some kind of hostel rather than a prison.

mattjack

eviltwin wrote: »

just to their "room", even the language used is gas, it seems they want to do everything they can to make the inmates feel they are in some kind of hostel rather than a prison.

Some of the young ladies I know who've been there call it the "Ladyjoy".

suicide_circus

In the female prison
there lie seventy five women
and it's in there with them
that I'd like to dwell

McCrack

It's quite a modern prison but overcrowded. Inmates have keys to their rooms and come and go as they like up until a certain time. It's very much a community prison. I visited nearly two years ago and there was a Labrador roaming around the garden area for anybody and everybody to pet/take care of.

Schnitzel Muncher

suicide_circus wrote: »

In the female prison
there lie seventy five women
and it's in there with them
that I'd like to dwell

You enjoy being stabbed?

ElleEm

With the contrast of the male prison, Dochas is a joke! They have it handy. The "prison" is broken down into "houses", each hold up to ten women, as far as I remember. The individual "rooms" (not cells) are ensuite and look like bedrooms from any one of our homes. They have a computer room, and I remember a notice board in the hall with things like yoga and stuff advertised on it. When we visited, all the women were chilling out in a communal sitting room watching the soaps. It absolutely did not seem like a prison. We had visited the male prison right before hand, where there are proper cells, slopping out, lights out, etc. The women's prison really made me feel sick. The governer at the time ever told us how some of the women call it "Hotel Mountjoy" and some reoffend to come back as it is so handy.

Miccoli

its great crack

Potential-Monke

McCrack wrote: »

I visited nearly two years ago and there was a Labrador roaming around the garden area for anybody and everybody to pet/take care of.

Nice to see our state dollars going on womens beastiality fetishes...

Steve O

Docha wish your prison was hot. Like. me...docha!1!

kraggy

I'd lose the head if I ended up in there.

jugger0

Women criminals should be kept in the same prisons as men, equality and all that...

Whatsernamex33

A hairdressers, all sorts of different courses, some prisoners have an ensuite, some are allowed walk around freely during the day with their own room keys, TVs..
That's all I remember from a school trip there. :P

Not a bad life at all in the women's prison. :P

Freddy Smelly

Colash wrote: »

I was looking for a more realistic/ honest answer . Rather than the usual piss takers

posting in AH will NEVER get you a serious answer

consider this something new that you learned today

Freddy Smelly

Colash wrote: »

Is there a prison thread ? Or section as I couldn't find it

there is a prison thread here but its only for people that get banned by admins or mods to get into it :P