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Address Harristown, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, Ireland Similar Irish Prison Service, Castlerea Train Station, Ballyhau Train Station, Glynn's Photogra, Clonalis House | ||
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Castlerea Prison is a closed, medium security facility in Castlerea, Co. Roscommon. It houses male prisoners from 17 years of age or more. It has a bed capacity of 351 and in 2009 its daily average number of resident inmates was 306.
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History
Castlerea was established as part of the system of district mental hospitals in 1939. Operating intermittently as a tuberculosis sanitorium, it continued to function as a hospital until 1994 when it was closed. It was renamed St. Patrick's Hospital during the 1960s. From 1996 it opened as prison accepting a small intake of inmates that year. Construction work on the main cell blocks of the prison was completed in 1998.
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Castlerea Prison Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA