Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

I will repeat a point I made on Second Stage. Would it be possible to hold a person for another year or two years if his or her sentence was to expire before he or she was 19 or 20 years of age rather than imprisoning them? I greatly dislike imprisoning young people, particularly if they have displayed good behaviour in detention centres. Prisons can become institutes of higher criminal education and have done so for many people. These people become contaminated by prison life.