The Irish Prison Service has said it is working with the HSE after “a number of overdose presentations in custody at Midlands Prison” yesterday.<\/p>\n
Four prisoners were hospitalised as a result of overdoses, after drugs were dropped by drone into a prison yard. <\/p>\n
“A drone dropped drugs into D yard on Friday,” a source told RT\u00c9 News. <\/p>\n
“Six prisoners overdosed, four were taken to hospital and one remains in hospital in an induced coma,” the source added.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the prison service said staff have increased the use of “random and intelligence-led cell searches on a daily basis”.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the service said its canine unit is carrying out searches around the prisons, “including a greater focus on searching deliveries into prisons”.<\/p>\n
“The Irish Prison Service continues to engage with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na with regard to preventing contraband entering our prison and this happens at both local and national level.”<\/p>\n
The service said it is working closely with colleagues in An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na “on a regular basis and the sharing of intelligence has led to target searches resulting in the seizure of contraband”.<\/p>\n
It added that “extra vigilance” is being taken and stopping contraband and drugs from entering the prison “continues to be a high priority”.<\/p>\n
The prison service has also appealed to prisoners, visitors, staff or members of the public with information regarding the trafficking of contraband to contact them.<\/p>\n
There is a free confidential telephone line (1800 855 717) and text line (086 180 2449) which is operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Prison Service has said it is working with the HSE after “a number of overdose presentations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-629864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629864","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=629864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}