Prisoners and staff test positive in Covid-19 jail outbreak
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The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has confirmed at Covid-19 outbreak at one of Portlaoise s sister jails in Dublin.
The IPS says prisoners and staff at Mountjoy Prison have tested positive for Covid-19 in a jail where there were 699 inmates on Friday, May 7 last. The Irish Prison Service can confirm there are (19) positive cases amongst the prisoner population to date. The Service is working closely with Public Health and the CHO testing team in the HSE and contact tracing is ongoing. The positive staff cases are currently confined to specific areas within the prison. Following engagement with Public health, HSE the testing of all staff and prisoners for Mountjoy and Dochas Prisons is ongoing, said the statement.
Mountjoy hit by largest prison coronavirus outbreak to date Contact tracing is ongoing after 19 prisoners test positive, says Prison Service.
Mon, May 10, 2021, 21:03 Updated: Mon, May 10, 2021, 21:14
Testing of Mountjoy’s 700 prisoners started last week with 19 positive results returned by Monday. File photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times
A total of 19 prisoners in Mountjoy have tested positive for Covid-19, the largest outbreak in the prison system since the pandemic began.
Testing within the Dublin prison is still ongoing, meaning this number is likely to rise. A number of staff members have also been infected but the Irish Prison Service declined to say how many.
Covid-19 outbreak at Mountjoy Prison as staff and 19 prisoners test positive
The outbreak may limit the amount of visits allowed for prisoners during the isolation period
Mountjoy Prison (Image: Colin Keegan/Collins)
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A number of staff and prisoners from Mountjoy Prison have tested positive for Covid-19.
Updated: 9:19, 9 May 2021
A DISGRACED solicitor who faces jail over a €120,000 social welfare scam last night told us: “The Kinahans will kill me in prison.”
Herbert Kilcline, 60, is due to begin his time behind bars next Thursday after he was convicted of fraudulently claiming payments.
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He was hit with a three-year sentence, with the final year and three months suspended, by a judge at a trial last week.
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