Hunger strike prisoner awarded €5,000 payout
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Ms Justice
Marie Baker
A prisoner who spent 50 days on hunger strike in protest of the conditions in which he was kept has been awarded €50,000 in damages by the High Court, The Irish Times reports.
Ms Justice Marie Baker said prison authorities had not responded seriously to the situation created by the start of his hunger strike in February 2015.
He eventually suspended his protest ahead of a separate three-day hearing in the High Court in March 2015 and did not resume it.
Neither the prisoner nor the prison in which he is being kept can be named.
The judge didn’t blame prison authorities for the hunger strike, but said they failed to properly manage his grievances with the prison regime.
Authorities should have dealt reasonably and expeditiously with this written complaints, she said.
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