Report undermines prison plans

Cormac O’Keeffe

Report undermines prison plans

The report funded by the Department of Justice found half the State's prisoners had a history of homelessness and nine out of ten were drug users.

It also revealed that one-in-three homeless people going to prison had previously been diagnosed with a mental illness and that two in three had spent time in a psychiatric institution.

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