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MOST OF IRELAND’S main prisons are over 90% full with some even over capacity.
The Irish Prison Service says that there are currently 3,852 prisoners in custody in the State meaning that 92% of the available beds are taken.
The highest rate is in the women’s prison in Mountjoy which currently houses 122 women from 105 beds available. It’s not the only prison over capacity with Cloverhill, Cork and Limerick prisons both at 100% capacity or above.
The Irish Prison Service also says that there are currently 587 prisoners on temporary release from prison, representing 12.8% of the total number of prisoners in the system.
Annual reports from visiting committees to five prisons have also been published today with overcrowding and drug use among the issues highlighted by the committees.
The five prison reports published were Mountjoy Prison, the Midlands Prison, Wheatfield Prison, Castlerea Prison and the Training Unit.
The Mountjoy report points to a number of different ways overcrowding affect the operation of the prison. It notes that complaints have reduced at the prison in 2013 and makes reference to an increased number of prisoners being locked-up for longer periods for their protection. This has however decreased in 2014 the report says.
In Wheatfield, the report notes how how drugs remains a problem in the prison and says that there is evidence that vulnerable prisoners and visitors can be bullied and threatened to bring in drugs.
The report from the Training Unit visiting committee make reference to the introduction of methadone into open prisons on the foot of a European Law Directive.
It says that there was unease over the plans but that the programme “is working successfully so far”.
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They should be hung drawn and quartered for making me use that pesky messenger app!
Did you read the terms for having that messenger app.
Aw, you ok hun?
@Alan, after checking out your link I feel great having always declined facebook’s incessant offer of the messenger app. That is some scary schizz. I certainly would have blindly accepted the terms and conditions
Thx for posting that
How is it even legal what they are
Doing..deleted.
The way I see it, if people want me they can text me or call and I can pick up my Facebook message on the laptop
If you read t+c’s of the journal the app can view and delete contents on your sd card. Why?
Thanks for that link Alan, have just deleted it from my phone!
After looking at Alans’s link I thought what a load of old nonsense.
The author is clearly pretty clueless about app permissions on android.
Why don’t you check the permissions of any other messaging app you have on android, they all have pretty much the same.
This is just the standard android permissions written to be as scary as possible.
Check out google hangouts now standard on android, not only does it have all these permissions but it can access your location at any time and read and edit your calendar at any time Gasp!
Just more ant-facebook ain’t I cool hipster nonsense.
If you are worried about Facebook and your privacy
Do not be on Facebook
sticking your ass in the air
like you just don’t care
You fine sir,deserve a medal
Like
Facebook is worth about $200 billion all thanks to the data you give them. they profit from data on users.
Are people “liking” this as a joke?
watch “terms and conditions apply” on Netflix. It will open your eyes.
seen it, recommend everyone sees it, though it confirmed what i’ve always known. planned obsolescence docu is another interesting one.
In those T&Cs posted by the Huffington post, what is meant by a malicious app may do this without your permission? Is it talking about the messenger app or what?
No it’s not talking about the facebook app.
They are standard permissions that any app can ask for.
If you install some dodgy app from somewhere and it asks for those permissions it can do dodgy things and record audio and video all the time.
The facebook app asks to record audio and take pictures so it can support its voice message and picture and video sending abilities.
Also, android users check this out….. Open google (assuming your signed in) click account > account history > places you’ve been.
You can select each date and it will show you exactly where you were etc. Why….? well each time you enable location for maps apps etc…. in the settings menu > Location > On… you will see the message below flash up. Agree or disagree….. always disagree.
Location Consent !
Allow googles location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running.
these people are delusional if they think they’re gonna get any $ of that sociopath Zuckerberg
You’d think Facebook would have registered fbclaim.com along with 20,000 intelligible variations for just such an occasion.
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