Republicans to challenge rules on visible ID for prison warders
TWO republican prisoners have won High Court permission to challenge an alleged continued failure to ensure all warders in Northern Ireland wear visible identification numbers.
Last year a judge declared that the Prison Service had unlawfully fallen short of introducing an adequate way of identifying officers accused of any mistreatment of inmates.
He directed that steps were to be taken by December to ensure staff can be singled out through their uniform.
But lawyers for Derry men Christy O'Kane (43) and Jason Ceulemans (44) claim the Prison Service has refused to comply with the[...]
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