Enoch Burke's case highlights Ireland's problem with reincarceration

Western society has a problem with repeat imprisonments for the same crime — reoffending data shows it simply doesn't work 

Enoch BUrke arriving at the Four Courts where he was sent back to jail.

Enoch Burke has been imprisoned again. Across comment sections on social media and in the kitchens of Ireland, a slow murmur is audible. The recognition that maybe imprisonment is disproportionate in this case.

Mr Burke was first imprisoned in September 2022 — since then he has been incarcerated for more than 550 days across four separate periods. Mr Burke's incarceration is as a result of repeatedly breaking a court order to stay away from his former place of work, Wilson’s Hospital school in Co Westmeath.