Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Caron McCaffrey:

It presents a difficulty to everybody who lives and works in our prisons when our prisons are over capacity. Certainly, the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Council of Europe recommend that prisons would be managed at 90% occupancy. Our ambition is to maintain a population at 95% occupancy-----

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