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Publication of Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2004
21 December 2005
Publication of Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2004
The Irish Prison Service today published the Service's Annual Report for the year 2003. The main highlights of the report are as follows:
- There were 10,657 committals to prison in 2004, of which 47.5% were committals under sentence.
- 8,820 persons were sent to prison in 2004 compared to 9,814 in 2003, a decrease of 10%. This reflected the reduction in the number of persons detained under immigration law. However, because immigrant detainees spend relatively short periods of time in custody, the reduction in their numbers had no significant impact on the average daily prisoner population.
- The daily average number of persons in custody in 2004 was 3,199 an increase of almost 1% on 2003
- 1,874 persons committed to prison in 2004 (17.6% of all persons committed) were foreign nationals. Of these 946 persons were held under immigration laws, a reduction of almost 50% on the 2003 figure
- There were 5,064 committals under sentence in 2004 as compared with 5,314 in 2003, a decrease of 6.4%
- The average cost of keeping an offender in custody in 2004 was 83,800 euro down 4,150 euro on the equivalent figure for 2003. This reflects the success of ongoing measures put in place to control prison costs.
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