Unlocked: An Irish Prison Officer's Story

by David McDonald

Book Overview

For over thirty years, David McDonald worked in Ireland's biggest prisons. This is his story. As a young officer, McDonald got a baptism of fire in Mountjoy. In 1989 it was a chaotic, pungent and overcrowded place, and the approach to keeping order was primitive. Returning to his hometown two years later, he entered Portlaoise Prison, which - due to the presence of IRA and other subversive prisoners - was then the most secure prison...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844886190
• ISBN13: 9781844886197
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Sandycove
• Length: 304 Pages