Hike in prison numbers ‘shows need for new jail’

ANOTHER significant increase in Ireland’s jail population highlights the need for a new prison, the head of the Irish Prison Service (IPS) said yesterday.

Hike in prison numbers ‘shows need for new jail’

Brian Purcell was speaking after the release of the IPS’s 2008 annual report which showed a 13.6% rise from 2007 in the total number of committals to prisons last year and, further, a 25% increase in the amount of people committed under sentence.

“That is a significant increase,” Mr Purcell said.

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