The Children’s Minster says she welcomes the decision to close St. Patrick’s Institution for young offenders.
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The unit in north Dublin will be shut within six months with inmates being moved in the interim to Wheatfield prison.
Its after a report from the Inspectorate of Prison’s noting that the safe and secure custody of young offenders there could no longer be guaranteed.
Minister Frances Fitzgerald admits that the state has failed the children housed at St. Patrick’s.
