Unlocked: An Irish Prison Officer's Story

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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 in Europe. McDonald w...