Seanad debates
Friday, 27 June 2003
Adjournment Matters. - Prisons Service.
The position is that under the provisions of the Children Act 2001, the Minister is obliged to provide separate detention facilities for 16 and 17 year old males and females who are committed to custody by the courts either on remand or under sentence. These secure detention centres, called children detention centres, will operate under their own unique regime which will cater specifically for the needs of juvenile offenders.
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