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The following is an extract from the Irish Prison Service Annual Report for 2001 which can be downloaded HERE (PDF-622Kb).
Committals
There were 12,127 committals to prison in 2001. Of these 5,160 were committals under sentence. Implementation of the Bail Act 1997, which came
into operation on 22 May 2000, has been a significant factor in increasing the number of committals on remand.
Annual committal numbers have long been used as an indicator of (i) the extent to which the Courts exercise the option of custodial sanction and (ii) the level of activity in prison reception areas. Committal numbers should not be regarded - as they sometimes are - as a statistic of the number of persons sent to prison. This is because any one person can be committed several
times in the one year. For instance, a person who is remanded in custody on a number of occasions pending trial is newly committed following each remand.
Similarly, a person may be remanded, convicted and released on more than one occasion in the one year giving rise to multiple committals on remand and sentence.
Persons committed in 2001
With the advent of the computerised Prisoner Records Information System (PRIS), it is now possible to provide statistics and profiles of persons who are sent to prison each year.
Just over 90% of all persons committed to prison in 2001 were male. Over 19% were aged under 21
years and 14.5% over 40 years of age.
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