These reports are structured to detail the events leading up to deaths in prison and management of the events associated with their death.

Death in custody investigation report: Mr. C, Cloverhill Prison, 27 April 2021.

The Office of the Inspectorate of Prisons has made 5 recommendations:
1. The Irish Prison Service should introduce a health care focused policy to respond to the threats and safety risks posed by the internal secretion of drugs and other items of contraband. This policy should clarify the roles and responsibilities of management, prison officers, and healthcare staff.
2. This new policy should provide for a central role for health care professionals in decision making regarding the supervision and care of a person where there is a suspicion of internal secretion of drugs and other items of contraband. All such decisions should include a recorded risk assessment.
3. If it is deemed necessary to isolate a person from the general prison population because of a suspicion that that they have internally secreted drugs or other items of contraband, they should be isolated in a Safety Observation Cell (SOC) under medical supervision, not in a Close Supervision Cell (CSC) under security observation.
4. The Irish Prison Service should intensify its efforts to physically prevent contraband from entering the prisons and to detect its presence once on the premises, including through technological means.
5. The Irish Prison Service should intensify its engagement with other relevant stakeholders, including An Garda Síochána, to develop a multi-agency written strategy to counter contraband entering a prison. This strategy should examine the use of technology, architectural disruptions, as well as how to prevent exploitation and coercion being used as a means to bring drugs and other contraband into a prison.

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Death in custody investigation report: Mr. E, Cloverhill Prison, 12 August 2021.

The Office of the Inspector of Prisons has made two recommendations:
1. The IPS should intensify its efforts to physically prevent contraband from entering the prisons and to detect its presence once on the premises, including through technological means.
2. The IPS should intensify its engagement with other relevant stakeholders including An Garda Síochána, to develop a multi-agency written strategy to counter contraband entering a prison. This strategy should examine the use of technology, architectural disruptions, as well as how to prevent exploitation and coercion being used as a means to bring drugs and other contraband into a prison.