The information is contained in the response to a Parliamentary Question from Sinn Féin’s mental health spokesperson Mark Ward.
Prisoners in the Training Unit, which is a low-security prison on the grounds of the Mountjoy, face an average waiting time of 893 days for a psychological appointment.Prisoners in the women’s Dóchas Centre face the shortest average waiting time at 153 days. Re-offending Ward added that the “failure in getting timely mental health supports is in turn having a negative impact on the rates of reoffending”.
Ward also called for any vacancies for psychologists in the prison service “to be filled as a matter of urgency”.
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