THE IRISH PRISON Service (IPS) said it is working closely with the HSE in response to a \u201cnumber of overdose presentations in custody\u201d at Midlands Prison on Friday.<\/p>\n
It is understood that nine people overdosed, with three requiring hospitalisation.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the IPS said: \u201cExtra vigilance is being taken within the prison and information for prisoners around the dangers of consuming contraband has commenced.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Irish Prison Service is committed to preventing the access of contraband, including drugs, into prisons,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood there has been drone activity around the prison in recent days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Midlands prison is a closed, medium-security prison, with a capacity of up to 891 adult males.<\/p>\n
The prison service said it is continuing to invest in new technologies and measures to support efforts to keep contraband out of prisons.<\/p>\n
It said prison staff have increased the use of random and intelligence-led cell searches daily, while the canine unit carries out searches around the prisons, including deliveries into prisons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Irish Prison Service continues to engage with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na with regard to preventing contraband entering our prisons, and this happens at both local and national level,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Irish Prison Service work 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE IRISH PRISON Service (IPS) said it is working closely with the HSE in response to a \u201cnumber…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,45762,2120,61,60,11183,101737,43,14233,34429],"class_list":["post-630000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-drug-overdose","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-prison-service","tag-midlands-prison","tag-news","tag-portlaoise","tag-prisons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630000","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=630000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}