John Lonergan

This week Sarah and Trina chat to John Lonergan or "The man who ran Mountjoy". John joined the prison service in 1968 and served as governor in the JOY or Mountjoy Prison on Dublin's Northside for 26 years, retiring in 2010. He has always argued that there is a direct link between crime and social-economic deprivation and is a believes that the only real long-term solution to poverty is education. He’s never been afraid to speak out against the establishment and is an advocate of the Irish Penal Reform Trust maintaining its imperative that the public should be informed about what's going on with our prison system. In this episode John talks about his life, his work within the prison system and what he's doing now.

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