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Sat 06 Jun 2007Prison officer wins demotion appealA chief prison officer in Mountjoy jail, who admitted copying CDs and to having a phone line fitted in a medical unit storeroom in the prison, has won his High Court challenge to a decision by the minister for justice to demote him.Mr Justice Brian McGovern noted some of the material found by gardaí - a CD burner, some DVDs and a computer - was pornographic but most of it was not.