Calls for harsher punishments for inmates who attack prison officers
Prison officers want harsher punishments for inmates who attack staff.
The issue is up for discussion at their annual conference in Galway today where the Justice Minister has called the situation 'unacceptable'.
There's mounting concern as the latest stats show assaults, at the women's jail Dóchas, went up five-fold in just one year between 2015 and 2016.
Frances Fitzgerald has promised the rigours of the law must apply to offenders.
But President of the Prison Officers Association Stephen Delaney, says at the moment prisoners are getting away with it:
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