Backstrom sued the prison system over the accident the following ... Sometimes, the lights never go off, or there aren’t any mattresses, or the facilities are just too loud.

The beds themselves have no mattresses, meaning the CECOT prisoners have to sleep on hard metal, and besides 30 minutes of ...

A cell in Mountjoy Prison with a mattress on the floor to accommodate a second prisoner because of overcrowding. Picture: Moya Nolan He said that while figures for last year are not yet available ...