Group backs plan for early jail release

A key State body has indicated its support for Oireachtas proposals that prisoners who have engaged in rehabilitation should be able to get out of jail earlier.

The Parole Board said that recommendations made by the Oireachtas justice committee to increase remission from a quarter to a third could form part of a new enhanced remission regime.

In such a scheme, enhanced remission would be considered if an inmate took part in rehabilitative and therapeutic services in jail, such as those aimed at addressing offending behaviour and psychological treatment.