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The following is an extract from the Irish Prison Service Annual Report for 2003 which can be downloaded HERE (PDF-2.7Mb).
There were 11,775 committals to prison in 2003, a decrease of 85 (0.72%) on the
total committals in 2002.
Committals
Of the 11,775 committals 5,314 were committals under
sentence, an increase of 278 (5.5.%) on the number of
committals under sentence in 2002.
A total of 44.8% of all committals in 2003 were committals under sentence; 15.8% were committals under immigration laws; 39% were committals on remand / for trial, and 0.4% were for contempt of court.
Committal figures are used as an indicator of (a) the extent to which the courts exercise the option of custodial sanction and (b) the level of activity in prison reception areas. Committal figures should not be confused with the number of persons sent to prison as any one person can be committed several times in one year, for example, on remand pending trial. Also, a person may be remanded, convicted and released on more than one occasion in the same year, giving rise to multiple committals on remand and sentence.
Persons committed in 2003
In 2003 a total of 9,814 persons entered the prison system. This compares to 9,716 in 2002, an increase of 1%.
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