30% Increase In Assaults On Prison Officers In 2021

Inmates assaulted staff 91 times last year.

The number of assaults on prison officers increased by 30 per cent last year. 

Inmates assaulted staff 91 times - compared to 70 in 2020. 

There were also 249 prisoner-on-prisoner attacks. 

Deputy General Secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, Jim Mitchell, outlines a serious assault on two officers in Mountjoy jail on Tuesday:

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