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- Residential Institutions. (21 Jan 2010)
Dick Roche: ...Act and remand touch on some of the areas to which the Deputy referred. On the issue of sentencing persons, there is no statutory power for a court to sentence a person to be detained in a Magdalen laundry or any other such institution as an alternative to imprisonment. However, it is known from the commission of inquiry into the reformatory and industrial school system in 1934 to 1936,...