Prison Name: | Cloverhill Prison |
Pushpin Map: | Dublin |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Dublin |
Location: | Clondalkin, Dublin 22, Ireland |
Coordinates: | 53.3425°N -6.3842°W |
Status: | Operational |
Classification: | Medium security |
Capacity: | 431 |
Population: | 424 |
Populationdate: | 2022 |
Opened: | 1999 |
Managed By: | Irish Prison Service |
Governor: | Tony Harris |
Cloverhill Prison (ga|Príosún Chnoc na Seamar) is a remand prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates in 2022 was 424.[1]
Adjacent to Wheatfield Prison, with which it shares many services, Cloverhill was opened in 1999. It is a purpose-built remand prison and houses most of the remand prisoners in the state.[2]
It and the Dóchas Centre, a women's prison, hold 90 per cent of persons detained under processes of administration detention for immigration related issues.[3]