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Irish Prison Service,
IDA Business Park,
Ballinalee Road, Longford,
Co. Longford
Phone:
+353 43 3335100 Fax:
+353 43 3335371
info @ irishprisons.ie
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Home : Media Centre : Press Releases/Speeches : News Item
Publication of Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2002 |
26 September 2003 |
The Irish Prison Service today published the Service's Annual Report for 2002. This is the first time in many years that the Irish Prison Service has published an annual report in the year following the year under report and represents the continuing efforts of the Service to ensure the more timely availability of statistics and information about the Service.
Highlights:
- There were 11,860 committals to prison in 2002 which represents a decrease of 2.25% on the year 2001
- 9,716 persons were sent to prison in 2002 up almost 2% on 2001
- 21% of the 9,716 persons sent to prison were foreign nationals from a total of 105 different states
- There were 5,036 committals under sentence in 2002,
- 67% were in respect of persons aged between 21 and 40 years of age
- persons aged 40 and over accounted for 17% of the total committals under sentence
- persons under 21 accounted for 16% of committals under sentence, down from 1,226 in 2001to 823 in 2002. This is a reduction of 33% for this age group on the figure for 2001
- the daily average number of persons in custody in 2002 was 3,165 an increase of just under 2% over 2001
- The average cost of keeping an offender in custody in 2002 was Euro84,750 up Euro5,750 on the equivalent cost in 2001
The file is available for download HERE |
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