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Thu 07 Jul 2010Ex-prisoner loses his 'slopping out' action
A FORMER IRA prisoner has lost a High Court action over alleged violation of his human rights through the continued existence of the “slopping out” regime in Portlaoise Prison.
Sean Mulligan (58), who was jailed in December 2002 for five years for IRA membership, claimed he was degraded and humiliated through having to use a five-inch deep round “potty” to defecate and urinate into in his cell.
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