Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Irish Prison Service van parked near the Four Courts. The Irish Prison Service (IPS) (Irish: Seírbhis Phríosuin na hÉireann) manages the day-to-day operation of prisons in the Republic of Ireland. Political responsibility for the Ireland's prisons rests with the Minister of the Department of Justice.
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.
Irish Prison Service St. Patrick's Institution , North Circular Road , Dublin 7 , was an Irish penal facility for 16- to 21-year-old males. It had a capacity of 217 beds and had an average inmate population of 221 in 2009.
Loughan House Open Centre (/ l ɒ k ˈ æ n /; [1] Irish: Teach an Locháin) is a low-security, open detention centre in Blacklion, County Cavan, Ireland. It was purchased by the Department of Justice in 1972 to be converted to a prison facility. It is low security, and caters for male inmates. [2] Its current governor is Mr Mark Lydon.
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.
Cloverhill Prison (Irish: Príosún Chnoc na Seamar) is a remand prison in Dublin, Ireland. It is on Cloverhill Road, Clondalkin , Dublin 22 . It has a bed capacity of 431 and its average daily number of inmates in 2022 was 424.
Cork Prison (Irish: Príosún Chorcaí) [2] is an Irish penal institution on Rathmore Road, Cork City, Ireland. It is a closed, medium security prison for males over 17 years of age. As of 2022, it had a bed capacity of 296 and the daily average number of resident inmates was 262.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service is the agency charged with managing prisons in Northern Ireland. It is an executive agency of the Department of Justice , the headquarters of which are in Dundonald House in the Stormont Estate in Belfast .