Calls for review of inmate and staff safety in Cork prison
The calls come following the fatal stabbing of an inmate over the weekend.
The Irish Prison Service will release its annual report today - two days after an inmate was stabbed to death in Cork prison.
The document will be released alongside the Probation Service's annual report this afternoon.
Fianna Fáil is calling on the Minister for Justice and the Prison Service to give assurances about inmate and staff safety in Irish prisons and issue stab vests to all Cork prison officers, after the death of 41-year-old Graham Jonston over the weekend.
The incident happened at around 5 o'clock last Saturday when a row over a remote control for the kitchen TV broke out between trustee prisoners working in the kitchen.
The father of three who is originally from Bandon suffered a single stab wound to the chest and although prison nursing staff attended to him at the scene he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Accodring to today's Irish Examiner the suspect had been cleared for kitchen duty despite his history of violent knife crime.
Technical experts recovered a metal which they believe was used in the row and gardaí have begun taking statements from the other trustee prisoners who were working in the kitchen at the time and will continue to gather evidence before interviewing the chief suspect for the killing,
AUDIO: Justice spokesperson Niall Collins says this latest incident is worrying.
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