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Friday, July 27, 2012

Quinn's jail privileges show touch of class - The Irish Times - Tue, Jul 24, 2012#.UA34e30yFhw.facebook#.UA34e30yFhw.facebook

Quinn's jail privileges show touch of class - The Irish Times - Tue, Jul 24, 2012#.UA34e30yFhw.facebook#.UA34e30yFhw.facebook: But because Quinn is there, someone else isn’t. Statistically, that anonymous someone is probably badly educated, from a poor urban background and caught up in drugs. The unit houses just 117 inmates – a tiny fraction of the 4,000-plus male prison population. Almost every one of those 4,000 men wants to be where Quinn is, and many of them are on the waiting list to get in. But they’re from the wrong class and they committed the wrong sort of offence. Even in prison, there are two Irelands and two kinds of crime?1964?JUVENILES SENT TO PORTLAOISE PRISON?

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