Nearly 400 litres of home-made alcohol was seized in Irish prisons last year. Mountjoy prison in Dublin was the worst offender.
According to freedom of information figures, 395.5 litres of homemade alcohol – or hooch – were seized in Ireland’s 12 prisons in 2019.
It includes seizures made across the jails’ estates and other sources, such as security nets and visitors.
More than a third of the alcohol was recovered from Mountjoy Prison – at 149 litres. Castlerea Prison in Co Roscommon is the next worst, at 72 litres.
Almost 100 litres of alcohol was seized from two prisons in Co Laois – Portlaoise and Midlands Prisons.
The Dochas women’s prison in Dublin was the only jail in the country that had no alcohol seizures last year.
