Maghaberry

Strip-search complaint: Politicians urge Claire Sugden to implement 2010 agreements

A PRISONER has been found dead in Maghaberry jail, the third death in the Co Antrim prison in the past month. It is understood the 34-year-old prisoner was found in his cell at the high security facility.

This week the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement heard disturbing evidence from three witnesses about the situation inside Maghaberry Prison. Conal Mc Feeley, Peter Bunting and John Finucane gave evidence.

Prison staff who watched but failed to intervene as a mentally ill prisoner blinded himself and injured his groin area have been strongly criticised.

Mr Justice Treacy, sitting today in the High Court in Belfast, allowed a judicial review challenging the Prison Service policy by which forced strip searches are recorded on a video camera and retained for a period of six years

Report on the implementation of the 2010 agreement with the Roe 4 Republican prisoners.

Conditions, management and oversight of all prisons - Interim Report

Following a protest by Republican prisoners in Roe House, the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) and the prisoners agreed to engage in a facilitation process. A Joint Facilitation Group (Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Creggan Enterprises and Dialogue Advisory Group) met both parties on a number...

Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Maghaberry is situated near Lisburn in County Antrim. It opened in 1986. Following the closure of HMP Belfast in 1996 and HMP Maze in 2000, Maghaberry was required to absorb and accommodate a number of different prisoner groups including remand prisoners and those...