Ms Caron McCaffrey:

Yes, but they tend to be very small numbers. On any given day we might have one person in for non-payment of a fine. We judiciously use temporary release to manage overcrowding. We have some very successful programmes providing support to people who are released early into the community. We have community support for people serving shorter sentences and there is community return under probation supervision for people sending serving longer sentences. When people are transitioning back out from our service, there are supports available to them in the community. We know that the more supports people have available to them when they leave prison, the less likely they are to commit another offence