Adam D’Arcy (21) died in Mountjoy Prison on Thursday morning, sparking a major alert by Irish Prison Service bosses about a dangerous nitazene substance that is suspected to have claimed his life
Prisoners have handed over hundreds of drugs after a fellow lag died and four more overdosed but survived a lethal substance.
It is understood that only for a prompt medical emergency response both men could have died after they suffered suspected overdoses on the same week that D’Arcy, who was serving a two-year sentence for drugs, died. It is feared the man died after initially surviving an overdose that saw him hospitalised - and then returned to prison.The Cork Prison inmate, referred to as Mr K in the report, died in his cell before 8am on March 14 – after returning to the prison from the Mercy University Hospital the previous morning.
The report into the death of Mr K has recommended the provision of remote technology which would help prison staff identify signs of life in prisoners.
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