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12/04/2010
Prisioners Treated After Jail Blaze
There has been further disruption at a Co Antrim high security jail.
After violence over the Easter period, two prisoners were taken to hospital following a fire at Maghaberry jail, on Sunday.
The NI Prison Service said the fire was after a number of papers were set ablaze in Foyle House, a remand wing.
Following the incident, the prisoners were taken as a precaution, to check if they were suffering from smoke inhalation.
The Prison Service said no other prisoners were involved and insisted that it was not connected to recent protests in the jail.
A group linked to the Continuity IRA said the Easter protest had been over prison conditions and saw 28 dissident republican prisoners barricading themselves into a dining room for three days.
The Prison Service said at the time that all prisoners in Maghaberry were cared for in a safe and humane manner and it strongly refuted claims that prisoners were subject to a 23-hour lock-up.
However, on Sunday, around 100 family and supporters of the dissident republican prisoners staged a protest outside the jail, to call for an international human rights observer to see conditions in the prison first hand.
Last week, Sinn Féin Assembly member Caral Ní Chuilín called on the prison authorities to treat Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison with respect and dignity.
"Regardless of why anyone is in prison they are entitled to be treated with respect and dignity. It is clear that the regime in place for republican prisoners in Maghaberry falls well short of this," she said.
See: 'No Lock Down' At Maghaberry
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After violence over the Easter period, two prisoners were taken to hospital following a fire at Maghaberry jail, on Sunday.
The NI Prison Service said the fire was after a number of papers were set ablaze in Foyle House, a remand wing.
Following the incident, the prisoners were taken as a precaution, to check if they were suffering from smoke inhalation.
The Prison Service said no other prisoners were involved and insisted that it was not connected to recent protests in the jail.
A group linked to the Continuity IRA said the Easter protest had been over prison conditions and saw 28 dissident republican prisoners barricading themselves into a dining room for three days.
The Prison Service said at the time that all prisoners in Maghaberry were cared for in a safe and humane manner and it strongly refuted claims that prisoners were subject to a 23-hour lock-up.
However, on Sunday, around 100 family and supporters of the dissident republican prisoners staged a protest outside the jail, to call for an international human rights observer to see conditions in the prison first hand.
Last week, Sinn Féin Assembly member Caral Ní Chuilín called on the prison authorities to treat Republican prisoners in Maghaberry prison with respect and dignity.
"Regardless of why anyone is in prison they are entitled to be treated with respect and dignity. It is clear that the regime in place for republican prisoners in Maghaberry falls well short of this," she said.
See: 'No Lock Down' At Maghaberry
(BMcC/GK)
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