Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sub-Committee on Penal Reform

Penal Reform: Discussion

3:10 pm

Dr. Ciarán McCullagh:

In that respect, that is going north, perhaps we should go south. Portugal is undergoing quite a radical restructuring of its criminal justice system in an attempt to reduce the size of its prison population and it shares one thing in common with us, it is also broke.

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