Non-Irish receive longer jail terms for drugs

Foreign nationals receive prison sentences an average of 11 months longer than those handed down to Irish nationals for possession of drugs for sale/supply worth less than €13,000.

An analysis of a year’s worth of committals shows while foreign nationals are under-represented in some crime categories, they are significantly over-represented in others.

According to the report, conducted by academics at University College Dublin, “these findings suggest that bias is occurring within the criminal justice system and warrants further examination”.