The prison where Raymond McCreesh held a hunger strike was operating between what years?
Raymond McCreesh Raymond McCreesh (Irish: "Réamonn Mac Raois" , 25 February 1957 – 21 May 1981) was a volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). In 1976, he and two other IRA volunteers were captured while attempting to ambush a British Army observation post. McCreesh was one of the ten Irish republicans who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
Orleans Parish Prison Orleans Parish Prison is the city jail for New Orleans, Louisiana. It is operated by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office. A majority of prisoners—1,305 as of June 2016—are awaiting trial.