The prison watchdog has criticised prison officers at Cork Prison for not carrying out regular checks on a vulnerable prisoner who was found dead in his cell last year. She has subsequently warned that “prison staff must understand that it is a serious matter to generate official documents that are misleading and/or inaccurate”. The 52-year-old married father, who was serving a six-month prison sentence, had received medical and psychiatric attention while in Cork Prison. Upon viewing the CCTV footage, Ms Casey found six intervals wherein the prisoner was left unattended for more than 15 minutes on the night he died. In her recommendations arising from her investigation into the man’s death, Ms Casey found that “All prison personnel must appreciate that official documents must reflect the truth of actions taken by officers.”

Source: Irish Examiner March 28, 2018 23:03 UTC