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True Stories by Paddy
MeGoolies
When I was growing up I had a friend called Stephen, his younger
brother John and his friend David took the wrong path in life and
before they were out of their teens they had got into all sorts
trouble from stealing cars, joyriding, breaking and entering to drug
dealing.
Joyriding in stolen cars
Both of them were arrested several times and were facing several
years behind bars. David ran off to England and there he eventually
got into financial trouble with drug dealers and was found hanging
in his bed sit, I do feel a bit sad for him when I think of his life
but he did choose it himself, he was in my class in school.
John stayed in Ireland to face his crimes and was sent to Mount Joy
Prison here in Dublin, he was given seven years. Mount Joy prison is
known in Ireland as ‘The Joy’. I met John in a pub
 several
years ago, he was on remand and he told me he was going into ‘The
Joy’ soon and he had made the decision to do his time and get
himself straight and eventually have a life for himself.
Since John’s incarceration he has become a Heroin addict and I found
out recently from some old school mates that John is now HIV
positive! Wow I guess crime really doesn’t pay!
 The
shocking truth is that John became an addict and contracted Aids
from sharing contaminated needles in Prison! He wasn’t a drug user
outside prison. John is the second person that I know who has gone
into the ‘Joy’ clean and become a user.
For some reason this problem of drugs in ‘The Joy’ has been brought
to light many many times but nothing has been done? The government
sits on their thumbs; maybe hoping it will go away? Or maybe they
let it go on to keep the prison folk happy and quiet? The prison
Governor John Lonergan has never publicly given any solution to the
problem and has never offered his resignation, after all he is a
public servant who’s doing a shit job, shouldn’t he be replaced with
someone who can do the job? You may have read a previous report I
wrote about a politician who was fired for smoking a cigarette in a
government imposed no smoking zone. Now that’s justice eh? Why am I
paying high taxes for this kind of crap public service?
 John
Lonergan
Governor
Mount Joy Prison
He’s happy but is my friend’s brother happy?
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