{"id":542547,"date":"2026-07-10T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542547\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:24:13","slug":"irish-prison-service-attempted-to-constrain-its-watchdog-during-inspection-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542547\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Prison Service attempted to &#039;constrain&#039; its watchdog during inspection &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMidEFVX3lxTFBtSkpKaUo0TUdJeFNOT05mZ3hiMVNNbEJkazYwUkQtMDh1dG1ubXFaRkREM0RjcnY5Z3RYWGprVXkybFdMb1BnTzJWVkFjdXFBZEh0clFDejN4Qy1JSlVsQnR3ZjhGMXZISTlrZXBJdk1GTGpw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Irish Prison Service attempted to &#8216;constrain&#8217; its watchdog during inspection<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTFBwM0JPd1h4N1AxVWxSV0xoTTZSRVVlalpxQlJQZk45d3RVZENlSUdYT3JHWG9ON0ZUcTlFUnpoQUhydGRLWVYzVkw1QjFKZVJXU0U5Q3Nsa3NkUm42aWs2Wnh6YXo0VkRqTXRKWFRDaHg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inspector accuses Prison Service of impeding its work<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE9SRFZTZnFObHV3UUpQek1JMTh3WDY1VUstaV9GQ0h0UE1vU29GNlN1X1Q0b2s3QVhrZ1hfWFlySjZ2MXppWFBQbkFsbEYxWE4welo4VGVLOGNudmZUcFRSMWhVaw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Just nine showers for 239 men&#8217;: Prison overcrowding crisis deepens, says Inspector of Prisons<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE5QU2lZU2MxN29DOVBkSHRrOGVqR2RiRkVDa0hHQUJoaVlnenJod0o4eGdTemZuMUk0ZHN2LWczZll6VFAyaWdmcjAxZEw5NUhEYXV2VHljUGJwcU1EMGJCYWxyYw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inspector of Prisons at loggerheads with prison service over issue of &#8216;escorts&#8217; during visits<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish Prison Service attempted to &#8216;constrain&#8217; its watchdog during inspection&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalInspector accuses Prison Service of impeding its work&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie&#8216;Just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9691,61,60,11183,230369,43,199169,135919,34429],"class_list":["post-542547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-department-of-justice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-prison-service","tag-national-disgrace","tag-news","tag-office-of-the-inspector-of-prisons","tag-overcrowding","tag-prisons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542547","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=542547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}