A 33-year-old inmate who died in custody at Castlerea Prison did not receive CPR for almost seven minutes after collapsing due to delays in retrieving a key to open his cell, an investigation has found.
The prison authorities were also unable to contact a doctor to formally pronounce the prisoner dead following the incident on July 14, 2020.
An investigation report by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons (OIP) noted that the importance of quick CPR intervention was “well established”, and brain damage begins to occur after four minutes.
