THERE WILL BE ‘riots’ when young criminal inmates are moved from St Patrick’s Institution to an adult prison in Dublin as rival factions battle for dominance, a senior prison officer has warned.

 

The inmates aged between 17 and 21 will be housed in Wheatfield prison in Dublin with senior members of gangs they are affiliated to which will lead to major tensions, food wine the officer said.

 

He warned that mixing junior and senior members of gangs from places like Finglas, Crumlin and Limerick will cause chaos in an already overstretched prison system.

 

“This hasn’t been fully thought through,” he told TheJournal.ie. “All of the issues that already exist in Pat’s will be magnified ten times over when they [inmates] are put in with other gang members.

 

St Pat’s is the most violent prison in the country. Moving all the [inmates] will make for a hothouse – there’s no question. There will be riots in Wheatfield when they move in.

The officer, who works in St Patrick’s and who spoke on condition of anonymity, formation of company said all of the young offenders already belong to gangs in the medium-security prison. “They all have to prove themselves,” he said.

 

Children’s Ombudsman Emily Logan visited Wheatfield Prison on Friday to see where the 17-year-old inmates will be held amid concerns over whether the west Dublin prison has the space or the staff to deal with the extra prisoners.

 

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has indicated that the youngest offenders will be held in a separate unit to the rest of the adult prison population. However it is not yet clear how long the 17-year-old criminals will be held in the jail before being moved to a special detention unit in Oberstown which is supposed to open next year.

 

Problems have persisted at St Patrick’s Institution, Asian college of knowledge management despite attempts to change the culture at the facility. The head of the Irish Prison Service said that the safety and security of offenders cannot be guaranteed during the announcement during the week that St Patrick’s is to close down.

Stephen Hovell, who had been principal at the school for 24 years, tried to fight his sacking earlier this year, arguing it was unjustified. He says he has been made a scapegoa Office Design.

 

He was sacked in February after a report commissioned by the school last year said Mr Hovell had not done enough to investigate his deputy, Parker, Residence Designafter parents and teachers raised concerns about his behaviour>.

 

Parker, 37, will be sentenced in August after admitting he sexually abused 20 boys at the school over about 12 years. He was finally charged last year.

 

In its decision the Employment Relations Authority says the school was right to sack Mr Hovell, and was highly critical of his failure to act on a 2009 complaint to police about Parker's indecent assault of a pupil, Office Design,, media report.

 

The complaint was withdrawn, but police wrote a letter to the school saying Parker should not have pupils staying overnight at his house.

 

However, Mr Hovell withheld that from the school's board and failed to record him telling Parker the sleepovers should stop. He also failed to monitor Parker's activity after he returned to school following the police investigation.

 

Authority member James Crichton said it "strains credibility to breaking point" that Mr Hovell did not know the sleepovers were continuing.

 

"That last-mentioned failure, the failure to monitor, ultimately led inexorably to further abuse of these young people, abuse which could so easily have been avoided by Mr Hovell taking some very straightforward steps to ensure his instructions were being followed."

 

The school is now looking to appoint a new principal in time for the beginning of the third term.

 

A TRADE UNION has proposed that Ireland’s budget deficit be attacked by spending more money, instead of trying to cut public pay hk gift and premium.

 

UNITE says the government’s plan to cut €300 million from the public pay bill would have virtually no impact on the deficit, because of the amount that households would have to reduce their spending if their income was hit hk gift premium fair.

 

Instead, it says, Ireland’s GDP – the benchmark measurement of the size of the economy – would actually shrink, with about 1,500 jobs lost.

 

The union says the deficit should instead be tackled not by cutting €300 million in spending, but by investing that amount in a ‘special investment programme’ throughout the second half of 2013 hk.premiumngifts.com.

 

“What UNITE’s research shows is that there is no economic reason to impose these cuts,” said regional secretary Jimmy Kelly.

 

“They are not necessary to reach the Government’s budget targets. They are optional – and they are the wrong option hk gift and premium.”

 

Kelly said UNITE members – 85 per cent of whom voted against Croke Park 2 in a ballot last month – had rejected the proposals because they knew it would postpone an economic recovery, as well as hitting their own pay and conditions.

His release was decided "following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition", presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement on Saturday.

 

An ambulance and black security vehicle arrived at the Johannesburg home of the frail 94-year-old, where the government said the former president will continue to receive "high care".

 

Mandela was rushed to an undisclosed hospital on March 27, suffering from a recurrence of a lung infection wall storage.

 

Doctors, who later said the infection was pneumonia, drained a build-up of fluid, known as a pleural effusion or "water on the lungs", that had developed.

 

His discharge from hospital would bring relief to millions of South Africans who regard him as the father of democracy in their country.

 

South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday extended his gratitude to his compatriots, the hospital staff and people around the world for their support  

"President Zuma thanks the hard-working medical team and hospital staff for looking after Madiba so efficiently," a presidency statement said, using Mandela's clan name.

 

It was the third time in five months that Mandela has been hospitalised.

 

Last month he was admitted for a night for a scheduled check-up and in December he was hospitalised for 18 days for a lung infection and gallstones surgery.

 

That stint was his longest since he walked free from 27 years in prison in 1990.

 

The Nobel Peace Prize winner has had longstanding lung problems.

 

In 1988, while serving a prison term for his anti-apartheid actions, Mandela was admitted to hospital in Stellenbosch with a bad cough and weakness after having complained of dampness in his cell.

 

He was diagnosed with early stage tuberculosis.

 

Since then, amid repeated health scares, South Africans have come to accept their ageing icon's mortality.

 

Mandela is idolised in his home nation, where he is seen as the architect of the country's peaceful transition from racialist police state to hope-filled democracy yahoo seo hk.

 

Nearly 20 years after he came to power as the first black president Mandela remains the unifying symbol in a country that is still riven by racial tensions and deep inequality.

 

Recent labour unrest, high-profile crimes, grinding poverty and corruption scandals have effectively ended the honeymoon enjoyed after Mandela ushered in the "Rainbow Nation."

 

The latest hospitalisation was greeted with mournful acceptance and wishes that "Madiba" - as he is affectionately called - would be as comfortable as possible, whatever his fate.

 

The news was also greeted by best wishes from around the world, including US President Barack Obama, who described Mandela as "a hero."

 

While Mandela the symbol dominates South African politics, the man has long since left the political stage and for many of the country's large young population he is a figure from another era.

 

He has not appeared in public since South Africa's football World Cup final in 2010, six years after retiring from public life.

 

Still, his nearly life-long struggle against apartheid resonates.

 

Detective Senior Sergeant Darryl Sweeney says initial inquiries and a forensic examination at the scene indicate there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.

 

Police believe the deceased is a 19-year-old Christchurch resident but won't release his name until he is formally identified.

 

Det Snr Sgt Sweeney said it was likely the teenager's body had been in the water for several hours before its discovery.

 

A post-mortem examination will be carried out on Friday and the death will be referred to the coroner.