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Cloverhill Prison

Cloverhill Prison

Remand prison in Dublin, Ireland

Cloverhill Prison (Irish: Príosún Chnoc na Seamar) is a remand prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates in 2022 was 424.[1]

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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.[2]

It and the Dóchas Centre, a women's prison, hold 90 per cent of persons detained under processes of administration detention for immigration related issues.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Irish Prison Service (2022). ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (PDF) (Report). p. 36.
  2. [2]
    Inspectorate of Irish Prisons (2006). Cloverhill Prison Inspection: 22nd - 29th November 2005 (PDF). Dublin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. [3]
    Immigration-related detention in Ireland Archived 16 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine


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