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Sat 06 Jun 2009Mountjoy inmates being forced to sleep in showers
PRISONERS IN Mountjoy are now being accommodated in shower units due to severe overcrowding, it has emerged.
Chaplains and prison officers say record numbers have being placed in the facility in recent weeks, due to an increase in crime and a lack of prison places. Up to 670 prisoners were accommodated this week in the jail whose bed capacity is officially about 540.
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