asked the Minister for Justice the prisons in which long-term prisoners are now being kept.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Long-term Prisoners.
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For the purpose of the reply I am taking a long-term prisoner to be a person serving a sentence of two years and upwards.
On this basis, I can say that, in general, long-term adult prisoners serve their sentences either in Mountjoy or Portlaoise prisons or in the Military Detention Barracks at the Curragh Camp and juveniles sentenced to long-term detention serve their sentences in St. Patrick's Institution.
As part of his rehabilitative programme, however, a prisoner or juvenile detainee may be moved, some time before final release, to an institution other than those I have mentioned, that is, either to one of the open institutions or to Cork or Limerick prisons.