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As of 2018, the Irish Prison Service oversees 12 facilities with an official capacity of 4,269, and a total population of 3,992, including pretrial detainees. Among all prisoners, 4.6% are female, 16.7% are pretrial detainees, and 1.0% are under the age of 18.
As of February 2021, the prison population in Ireland was 3,729. [12] In December 2020, the incarceration rate was approximately 73 per 100,000 inhabitants. [12] The proportions in the prison population are; 17.6% are pre-trial and remand prisoners, 4.2% are females, 1.0% are under the age of 18, and 13.3% of the prisoners are foreign.
The Prison Officers' Association (POA) is a trade union representing prison officers in Ireland. The union was founded in 1947 by prison officers working at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin . Although it gradually established branches at other prisons, progress was slow, and the Mountjoy branch committee continued to run the union's national operation.
His Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) is a part of HM Prison and Probation Service (formerly the National Offender Management Service), which is the part of His Majesty's Government charged with managing most of the prisons within England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own prison services: the Scottish Prison Service and the ...
Defunct prisons in the Republic of Ireland (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Prisons in the Republic of Ireland" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The Dóchas Centre (Irish: lárionad le Dóchas) is a closed, medium security prison, for females aged 18 years and over, located in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is also the committal prison for females committed on remand or sentenced from all Courts outside the Munster area of Ireland.
The Midlands Prison (Irish: Príosún Lár na Tíre) is a medium security prison in Portlaoise, County Laois.It receives prisoners who are aged 17 years and over. It has a bed capacity of 870 and its daily average number of inmates resident in 2009 was 512.
Irish name Coimisinéir: Leas Choimisinéir: Cúntóir-Choimisinéir: Máinlia: Ard-Cheannfort: Ceannfort: Cigire: Sáirsint: Garda Ionaid: Mac Léinn Gharda: Mac Léinn Ionaid: Max number [1] 1 3 12 1 [note 1] 53 191 390 2,460 12,500 Number as of end 2022 [3] 1 2 8 0 46 168 466 2,074 11,411 Insignia [4