Prisons Failing

Prisons Failing

If there was any doubt that our prisons are being run by the criminals then that doubt has been set aside this week by the conviction of a prisoner who is on 23 hour, lock down, being found in possession of 6 mobile phones in his cell, Sean Fennessy is housed on landing 1F in Wheatfield Prison and is locked in his cell 23 hours per day for the past thirty months due to the fact that there is a contract on his head by fellow drug dealers.

Fennessy is only allowed out of his cell under strict supervision for exercise in a small walled yard and a shower. For the rest of the day Fennessy is behind a four inch steel door in a cell that is made from reinforced concrete. The largest item that could be passed under the cell door would be a sheet of paper. Yet Fennessy has been able to acquire 6 mobile phones.

Sean ‘the dwarf’ Fennessy was sentenced to 10 years at Trim Circuit Court in 2008 for possession of 13,000 Euros worth of cocaine. Since entering Wheatfield in 2008 Fennessy has been caught on three previous occasions with mobile phones, Fennessy has pleaded Guilty this week to further possession of 6 more mobile phones in his single cell in Wheatfield and will now serve an extra six months in jail. Judge Delahunt imposed a 12 month sentence with the final six months suspended; Judge Delahunt also accepted that the phones had not been linked to organised gangland crime. However, contrary to Judge Delahunt’s comments, the reality is some what different; Sean Fennessy is supplied with his phones and drugs by the Dundon/Mc Carty gang who are housed on landings 7-9 G in Wheatfield. The Dundon/Mc Carty gang use runners, usually prisoners working on the painting party (this is a small group of prisoners who have access to the entire prison as they paint the corridors and landings) to deliver drugs and phones around the prison.

Fennessy has befriended convicted rapists such as Martin ‘Bruce’ Dunne (serving 14 years for raping a young married woman in her own home in Dublin/he had brought his nephew with him to rape the woman, the nephew committed suicide before the case went to trial), Barry Mc Gee (serving 15 years for raping two young women in their apartment in Dublin), Damien Collier (serving 11 years for the rape of a young women in Donegal), these prisoners do Fennessy’s bidding and he in turn supplies them with drugs and phones. The Dundon/Mc Carty gang will do business with anyone in order to make money; they recently ordered the rape of a prisoner in Wheatfield as they accused him of being a Rat.

There are presently almost 1000 prisoners on early release, these include drug dealers, violent robbers, burglars and so forth as the prisons are bursting at the seams, however, even those remaining within the prison walls are just carrying on business as usual. Prison officers feel helpless as their numbers have remained static as the prison population has increased beyond its accepted capacity, criminal activity including possession of mobile phones, drugs, knives and criminal activity such as assault, slashing, threat, intimidation, bullying and even rape are now part and parcel of every day live in Ireland’s prisons, for career criminals prison is simply a place for ‘Crime Practice’ until they are unleashed onto the public.

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