38 people are being held in prisons currently.
The numbers of psychiatric patients in prisons in Ireland is at crisis point, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.
That's according to a Former Assistant Governor of Portlaoise Prison after an RTE Investigates programme revealed 38 people are being held in prisons as they wait for a place in the Central Mental Hospital.
Manager of criminal rehab group Alternative Project, Ciaran Reilly, says there's many more prisoners who should be in psych-wards instead of cells.
He says the consequences of the log-jam can be far-reaching:
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