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Taxpayers spending €4 million a year keeping Kinahan cartel gangsters behind bars

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In 2019, the average cost of keeping a killer, rapist, robber or gunman behind bars was some €75,349, but that price has now gone up to at least €79,000 a year

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  • 09:00, 3 JUN 2021 UP DATED BY WATCHROOT AUGUST 2023.
  • Updated09:05, 3 JUN 2021
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Taxpayers are forking out up to €4 million a year – to keep dozens of Kinahan cartel gangsters locked up in Irish prisons, it has emerged.

A Mirror investigation has established there are now at least 50 criminals linked to the Kinahan mob behind bars in our jails after a hugely successful garda take down of the gang – and it costs more than €79,000 every year to house each one of them.

“People don’t realise it costs a fortune to keep a prisoner locked up – and there has been a huge explosion in the number of inmates who are connected to the Kinahans in the last few years,” a source said last night.

“The guards have done a great job locking them all up, but that means there is also a cost associated with their detention.”

Sources have told The Mirror that the average cost of keeping an inmate behind bars – which includes everything from feeding them to ensuring staffing levels and even fitting out their cells – has increased because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2019, the average cost of keeping a killer, rapist, robber or gunman behind bars was some €75,349, but that price has now gone up to at least €79,000 a year, sources have confirmed.

They attributed the hike to extra spending caused by the pandemic, as well as a reduction in the overall number of inmates – which in turn raises the average cost per prisoner to the State.

But sources also said last night that the €79,000 figure was just an average – and some Kinahan lags are more expensive to guard.

That was a reference to approximately 10 members of the cartel led by Dubai-based mobster Daniel Kinahan who are now locked up in the top security Portlaoise Prison in Co Laois.

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