Cloverhill Remand Prison ( ga, Príosún Chnoc na Seamar) is located on Cloverhill Road,
Clondalkin
Clondalkin ( ; ) is a suburban town situated 10 km south-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland, under the administrative jurisdiction of South Dublin. It features an 8th-century round tower that acts as a focal point for the area. Clondal ...
,
Dublin 22
Dublin postal districts have been used by Ireland's postal service, known as ''An Post'', to sort mail in Dublin. The system is similar to that used in cities in Europe and North America until they adopted national postal code systems in the 19 ...
. It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates resident in 2009 was 438.
History
Adjacent to
Wheatfield Prison, with which it shares many services, Cloverhill was opened in 1999. It is a purpose built
remand prison and houses most of the remand prisoners in the state.
It and the
Dóchas Centre
The Dóchas Centre (Irish: ''lárionad le Dóchas'') is a closed, medium security prison, for females aged 18 years and over, located in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is also the committal prison for females committed on remand or sente ...
, a women's prison, hold 90 per cent of persons detained under processes of
administration detention for immigration related issues.
Immigration-related detention in Ireland
See also
* Prisons in Ireland
Prisons in Ireland are one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both for the commission of an indictable offense and other offenses.
Authority
In 1925, shortly after the establishment of the Irish Free State, Minister for ...
Notes
Prisons in the Republic of Ireland
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