Prisons Inspector dies

[The Earl of Desmond]

RIP

But lets face it nothing changed in the prisons because of him so he was a total failure in that role. The same people from the same areas still grow up to go to jail.

God forbid anyone in the PDs would support anything which identified areas where people end up in jail rather than college and put in place plans to tackle that - ie if you grow up in Foxrock you end up in the law courts and if you grow up in Fatima Mansions you end up in the dock - is it too much to expect people growing up in Fatima Mansions have proper schools, youth centres, drug avoidance programmes, gardai help etc etc, job training, a local college etc etc?

[wise_old_owl]

Dear Moderator
Could you put my first comment back as I think It was not too bad

[St Disibod]

I enjoyed this part from his obituary in the Irish Times. He sounds like he would have been good craic to know:

The Irish Times[/i]]He was patron of Pace (Prisoners' Aid through Community Effort) a half-way house for discharged prisoners. He also visited prisons across the globe as part of international monitoring groups. In 1997 he received a papal award as a Knight Commander of Equestrian Order of St Gregory the Great with Cross and liked to tell friends that meant he could receive Holy Communion mounted on a horse.