Prisoners protesting, but won't say why
04/08/2004 - 14:34:17Three inmates in Cork Prison are on a "dirty protest", it was confirmed in the Evening Echo today.
Prison sources say that the prisoners won’t say why they are protesting. Today is the 12th day of the protest.
“They are eating and drinking as normal and their mood does not seem to have changed,” the prison’s governor Sean Quigley told the Echo.
The report says that the men are refusing to use the toilets in their cells, preferring to use the floors, and daub faeces on the walls of their cells.
The protest began on Saturday, July 25, in the prison’s D unit, an area for prisoners who have been disruptive at other prisons nationwide.
Three prisoners are involved, including a man said to have been at the centre of an attempt to hold prison officers captive in Mountjoy in 1997.
