They showed the prison closure on Irish tv and one of the last prisoners being brought to the boat was a man I used to buy Cannabis from. Loads of history on that small island. Its closure brought a huge Heroin problem to the nearby city as that jail was relatively Heroin free and the youth offenders were shipped to another youth prison, St Pat's Dublin which was full of it and those prisoners came back addicted and had made connections to suppliers in St Pats. I personally believed it was deliberate as at the same time there was a large never seen before Cannabis shortage in the city and Ireland was flooded with Heroin from the war in Afghanistan. Pre Afghan war Heroin use had dropped dramatically.
FunkLoudSoulNoise t1_ithp54a wrote
Reply to TIL that a prison riot in 1985 on Spike Island near Cork, Ireland, ended after a mother of a prisoner heard what was happening, came to the island,& roared at her son through a megaphone after he had been on a roof for hours; it took only a few minutes of shouting & the remaining prisoners came down by newshoeshudis
They showed the prison closure on Irish tv and one of the last prisoners being brought to the boat was a man I used to buy Cannabis from. Loads of history on that small island. Its closure brought a huge Heroin problem to the nearby city as that jail was relatively Heroin free and the youth offenders were shipped to another youth prison, St Pat's Dublin which was full of it and those prisoners came back addicted and had made connections to suppliers in St Pats. I personally believed it was deliberate as at the same time there was a large never seen before Cannabis shortage in the city and Ireland was flooded with Heroin from the war in Afghanistan. Pre Afghan war Heroin use had dropped dramatically.