Wheatfield Prison - Irish Prison Service
A closed, medium security prison for adult males. Mr. Stewart Stephens (Chairperson), Wheatfield Prison Visiting Committee, Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.
Wheatfield Prison - Wikipedia
Wheatfield Place of Detention (Irish: Príosún Pháirc na Cruithneachta) is a closed, medium security prison located on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It receives male prisoners of 17 years of age and older from the counties of Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Wexford and Wicklow.
A day in the life of Wheatfield Prison - Irish Examiner
May 14, 2008 · Wheatfield Prison was hailed as a model prison on its opening in 1989. It was purpose-built to provide work, training and education for the majority of the 320 inmates it was designed to take,...
Wheatfield Prison in lockdown after dozens of phones, drugs and …
Oct 24, 2024 · Wheatfield Prison in west Dublin is in lockdown this evening after one of the most significant contraband searches to occur in recent times in an Irish jail.
Wheatfield Place of Detention - Irish Prison Service
The Irish Prison Service can accept prisoner property at prison entrances, during family visits to the prison or by post. The following table outlines a list of authorised items that can be delivered to a prison on behalf of individual prisoners:
Wheatfield Prison - News, views, pictures, video - Dublin Live
Jan 14, 2025 · Sources say the prison, which recorded the largest number of mobile phones, illegal drugs and weapons seized last year, is “awash” with cocaine - but that much of it is going unreported.
Hard cell: The entrepreneurial programme for prisoners
Jan 20, 2018 · The Prison Entrepreneurship Programme being run in Wheatfield Prison looks to harness energies in a positive way, and has been proven to reduce recidivism rates
An inside look at prison life - The Clare Champion
Feb 21, 2013 · Situated behind Liffey Valley in Clondalkin, up to 700 men can be incarcerated in Wheatfield, with many spending up to 18 hours a day in their cells. It’s not for the claustrophobic but the over-riding feeling I got from it is that rehabilitation is clearly not working in this country.
Restorative practices in prisons – wheatfield prison
We will devise specific strategies for younger prisoners, women, older prisoners, sex offenders, protection prisoners, violent offenders and those suffering from mental illness. We will build on and enhance current programmes and services, including accredited education and …
Irish prison locked down amid raid as huge haul of almost 40 …
The Irish Prison Service has seized almost 40 phones, drugs and weapons following a lockdown raid at Wheatfield Prison in Dublin on Thursday evening. An intelligence lead operation at the...