“This work is currently being progressed.”
70% of those entering prison have addiction or substance issues
When you grow the population and refuse to grow prison places, you will eventually get to a place where you can say that the prisons are too overcrowded and we need alternatives to prison.
Landmark sentencing review
Women must be safe
As prison numbers rise
Exact number unknown.
“A real scandal.”
Building more prisons is a “misguided” approach to the problem of crime, Labour Party Justice spokesman Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has said, adding that Ireland needs a “fundamental change in approach” to the justice system. Reacting this week to reports from the Prison Officers’ Association which said that problems of overcrowding, drug abuse and attacks in […]
Sean Meehan (65) says a judge told him to ‘pack a bag’ for 4 months in Limerick Prison after Tipperary County Council ordered him to remove his mobile home from his own land.
School asked court to take “radical step”
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