Cork Prison (Irish: Príosún Chorcaí)[2] is an Irish penal institution on Rathmore Road, Cork City, Ireland. It is a closed, medium security prison for males over 17 years of age. As of 2022, it had a bed capacity of 296 and the daily average number of resident inmates was 262.[3][4] It is immediately adjacent to Collins Barracks and near the Glen area of the city.
While the current prison facility was built and opened as a €45m development in 2016, it replaced an existing 19th century prison facility on the same road.
^"Cork Prison". Irishprisons.ie. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
^"Priosuin agus Áiteanna Coinneala (Prisons and Places of Detention)" (in Irish). Citizens Information Centre. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
^Irish Prison Service (2022). ANNUAL REPORT 2022 (PDF) (Report). p. 36.
^Roche, Barry (22 January 2016). "New €45 million Cork Prison will mark 'a major improvement'". Irish Times. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
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