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There are currently almost 5,000 prisoners in Irish prisons, and the Irish Penal Reform trust says the Government should focus on making prison conditions better: not building more prisons.
New legislation will force judges to consider community work instead of jail for minor offenders.
Horrified relatives struggled to contain their emotions as they watched the violence unfold.
United Nations Committee against Torture recommends that a mechanism should be astablished to facilitate criminal complaints. It also calls the practice of slopping out “inhumane”.
Alan Shatter says new legislation to reduce the prison population will be passed by the end of July.
A newspaper reports also says that anyone arrested for a crime carrying a jail term of five years or more could be forced to give a sample.
The report from a Council of Europe committee heavily criticises conditions in some of the country’s major prisons.
The Irish Prison Chaplains’ annual reports slams the criminal justice system and the media.
Prison Service warns of increased numbers imprisoned as court services resume, and Liveline callers claim they went to jail for failing to pay litter fines.