Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service

See the whole debate « Previous speaker Next speaker »

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Donnellan:

No. We do not count fines cases in the recidivism figures because it would completely skew it. Let me put our prison numbers in perspective in terms of the world population. In America the number in prison per 100,000, is 680; whereas we imprison 77 people per 100,000.

Comments

No comments

 

Log in or join to post a public comment.