Wheatfield Prison

Wheatfield Place of Detention
Location in Dublin
LocationCherry Orchard, Dublin 22, Ireland
Coordinates53°20′28″N 6°22′57″W / 53.3410°N 6.3826°W / 53.3410; -6.3826
StatusOperational
Security classMedium security
Capacity540
Population426 (as of 2009)
Opened1989
Managed byIrish Prison Service
GovernorMartin O’Neill

Wheatfield Place of Detention (Irish: Príosún Pháirc na Cruithneachta) is a closed, medium security prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is on Cloverhill Road, Cherry Orchard, Dublin 22. It receives male prisoners of 17 years of age and older from the counties of Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Wexford and Wicklow. It has a bed capacity of 430 and in 2009 the average daily number of inmates resident was 426.

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