Written answers
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Department of Justice and Equality
Prison Committals
Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons imprisoned for sentences of less than six months in each of the years 2011 to 2016 to date; and the number of these that are sentences related to violent or sexual crime. [12563/16]
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Prison Service that the number of persons imprisoned for sentences of less than six months in each of the years 2011 to 2015 is set out in the table; figures for 2016 are not available yet. The number of committals is higher than the number of persons imprisoned as a person may be committed more than once.
| Year | Number of persons imprisoned for sentences less than six months | Number of committals imprisoned for sentences less than six months |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10,152 | 11,502 |
| 2014 | 9,454 | 10,610 |
| 2013 | 8,938 | 10,085 |
| 2012 | 9,266 | 10,571 |
| 2011 | 8,615 | 9,856 |
| Year 2011 | Year 2012 | Year 2013 | Year 2014 | Year 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offence | |||||
| Sexual offences | 9 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 12 |
| Attempts or threats of murder, assaults, harassments and related offences | 277 | 239 | 222 | 194 | 201 |
| Dangerous or negligent acts | 1,051 | 996 | 828 | 739 | 717 |
| Kidnapping and related offences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Robbery, extortion and hijacking offences | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| Burglary and related offences | 115 | 107 | 87 | 82 | 73 |
| Theft and related offences | 616 | 679 | 661 | 657 | 657 |
| Fraud, deception and related offences | 303 | 281 | 321 | 306 | 274 |
| Controlled drug offences | 442 | 502 | 513 | 468 | 508 |
| Weapons and explosives offences | 108 | 78 | 94 | 92 | 69 |
| Damage to property and to the environment | 264 | 296 | 267 | 292 | 262 |
| Public order and other social code offences | 1,662 | 1,775 | 1,590 | 1,481 | 1,338 |
| Road and traffic offences | 3,390 | 3,830 | 3,709 | 4,107 | 4,705 |
| Offences against Government, Justice and Organise Crime | 1,117 | 1,168 | 997 | 1,266 | 1,615 |
| Offences not elsewhere classified. | 496 | 609 | 782 | 913 | 1,068 |
| Total | 9,856 | 10,571 | 10,085 | 10,610 | 11,502 |
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