Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:00 am
Ms Caron McCaffrey:
No, I have the percentages. We introduced the incentivised regime model to encourage prisoners to be of good behaviour. For example, if a prisoner is at an enhanced level, he or she can avail of an additional gratuity, tuck shop orders or telephone calls. At the end of December, almost 50% of the prison population, or 1,921 prisoners, were on the enhanced regime, 40%, or 1,570, were on the standard regime and almost 10%, or 378, were on the basis regime.
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