{"id":299150,"date":"2026-02-15T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299150\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:47:09","slug":"colin-murphy-what-one-familys-troubling-experience-tells-us-about-the-cycle-of-prison-and-psychosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/299150\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Murphy: What one family\u2019s troubling experience tells us about the cycle of prison and psychosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The father of an inmate describes his fears about his son\u2019s future when he walks free untreated and unrehabilitated\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Almost 15pc of the inmates in Cloverhill are actively psychotic. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/622e6ef3-dadd-49fb-8a7f-17bf3a1c359a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Almost 15pc of the inmates in Cloverhill are actively psychotic. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For Diarmuid Peavoy, last week\u2019s RT\u00c9 Investigates docu\u00admentary, The Psychiatric Care Scandal, was both familiar and revelatory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">His son, Eoghan, who has schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder, is currently sleeping on a mattress on the floor of an overcrowded cell in Cloverhill Prison. But Diarmuid hadn\u2019t realised how many others were in a similar predicament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of an inmate describes his fears about his son\u2019s future when he walks free untreated and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[45,141855,3414,103,61,60,410,411,6085],"class_list":["post-299150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-colin-murphy","tag-department-of-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}