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Episode 108 - How the Prison Services are controlling Ireland's most notorious criminals
Keeping the peace inside Ireland's prison system has never been easy - but the fall of the Kinahan cartel has made life behind bars more dangerous than ever.
According to prison officials, there are currently a total of 166 inmates from 14 separate criminal mobs jailed in prisons across the country.
However, prison insiders claim that the lines between the different gangs have become so blurred, with the influence of the Kinahan cartel so all pervasive, that the traditional divides can no longer be said to apply.
Five prisons, in particular, house the majority of the country’s most notorious gangland criminals.
These are: Mountjoy, Portlaoise, Wheatfield, Castlerea and Limerick.
Today, I’m joined by Sunday World Deputy Editor Niall Donald to look at how the Prison Service are keeping Ireland's most notorious gangsters under control while behind bars.
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- Episode 104: The cold case murders that have haunted Northern Ireland
- Episode 103: The Lithuanian gang who flooded Ireland with heroin through their network of slave dealers
- Episode 102: The life and crimes of Kinahan cartel crony Johnny 'Cash' Morrissey
- Episode 101: What's next for the WAGS of the Kinahan Cartel?
- Episode 100: The Kinahan Cartel's partnership with Scotland's most-feared mobs
- Episode 99: The continued 'Manhunt' for double murder suspect Kevin Parle
- Episode 98: How the Kinahan Cartel broke into the U.S. Boxing scene
- Episode 97: Christy Kinahan Snr - The Cartel 'Godfather' who hid in plain sight
- Episode 96: How sadistic killer Graham Dwyer is one step closer to freedom
- Episode 95: My ordinary 'Old Man' - the UK super-criminal
- Episode 94: How the world's law enforcement plotted the downfall of the Kinahan Cartel
- Episode 93: The gangland murder of James Whelan and the 'Mr Flashy' feud
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