CURRAGH PRISON

The Curragh Prison houses one hundred prisoners with an age profile of thirty plus. Education is voluntary. Although there are only five classrooms, a wide curriculum is available .to students: English, Maths, Languages, ICT.

  Home Economics, Sociology, Geography, Creative Writing, Drama, Art, Craft, Music and PE. Practical subjects are most popular. Some men work in the yards doing Horticulture for which no formal qualifications are required.

  There is an eighty percent uptake in education and writers and artists are invited to work with students on a regular basis. The ICT department is currently working on a very interesting project indexing school rolls from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, and putting them on a database. Group programmes are also offered to address offending behaviour.