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:

Its capacity is 112. There is a second open centre, Loughan House in Blacklion, which has a capacity of 104. The Deputy is correct about the security arrangements in place and will understand careful selection of prisoners is very important. It plays a really important part in normalisation, particularly for prisoners who are serving long sentences, to give them some autonomy to get them used to managing themselves and their own time.

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