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Thu 06 Jun 2010Mentally ill woman forcibly ejected from prison against her will
A NUMBER OF investigations have begun after a mentally ill, homeless and drug-addicted woman was granted early release just weeks into a six-month jail term and was forcibly removed from prison after saying she had nowhere to go.
The prisoner, a Dubliner in her mid-20s, was carried by staff from the women’s Dóchas Centre in the Mountjoy Prison complex, in north Dublin, and left on the pavement outside.
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