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Cloverhill Prison
Cloverhill Prison is located in Dublin
Cloverhill Prison
Location in Dublin
LocationClondalkin, Dublin 22, Ireland
Coordinates53°20′33″N 6°23′03″W / 53.3425°N 6.3842°W / 53.3425; -6.3842
StatusOperational
Security classMedium security
Capacity431
Population424 (as of 2022)
Opened1999
Managed byIrish Prison Service
GovernorTony Harris

Cloverhill Prison (Irish: Príosún Chnoc na Seamar) is a remand prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates in 2022 was 424.[1]

History

Adjacent to Wheatfield Prison, with which it shares many services, Cloverhill was opened in 1999. It is a purpose-built remand prison and houses most of the remand prisoners in the state.[2]

It and the Dóchas Centre, a women's prison, hold 90 per cent of persons detained under processes of administration detention for immigration related issues.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Irish Prison Service (2022). ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (PDF) (Report). p. 36.
  2. ^ Inspectorate of Irish Prisons (2006). Cloverhill Prison Inspection: 22nd - 29th November 2005 (PDF). Dublin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Immigration-related detention in Ireland Archived 16 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine