Cloverhill Prison
Remand prison in Dublin, Ireland
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Cloverhill Prison (Irish: Príosún Chnoc na Seamar) is a remand prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates in 2022 was 424.[1]
History
Adjacent to Wheatfield Prison, with which it shares many services, Cloverhill was opened in 1999. It is a purpose-built remand prison and houses most of the remand prisoners in the state.[2]
It and the Dóchas Centre, a women's prison, hold 90 per cent of persons detained under processes of administration detention for immigration related issues.[3]
See also
- Prisons in Ireland
Notes
- ^ Irish Prison Service (2022). ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (PDF) (Report). p. 36.
- ^ Inspectorate of Irish Prisons (2006). Cloverhill Prison Inspection: 22nd - 29th November 2005 (PDF). Dublin.
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External links
- Cloverhill Prison page on the Irish Prison Service site
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