Written answers
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Department of Justice and Equality
Prison Service
Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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607. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total prison population by year for each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of prisoners incarcerated for petty crime for the same time period; and the percentage of the prison population broken down by male and female inmates. [4733/22]
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the tables below.
Table 1 provides the number of committals to the Irish Prison Service for the period 2010 – 2022 broken down by male and female.
Table 2 provides the daily average population for the period 2010 to 2021 broken down by male and female.
The Prison Service does not record information on persons incarcerated for petty crimes, as this is not a specific category of offence. However, the Service records statistics relating to offence groups as well as by sentence length.
These statistics are available on the Irish Prison Service website and can be located in the Information Centre - Statistics and Information – Yearly Statistics – Sentenced committals each year from year 2007 to year 2020.
Table 1 Committals to Prison for the period 2010 to 2022 broken down by male and female
Year | Total | Change from previous year - % | Persons | Change from previous year - % | Male | Female | % Male | % Female |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022* | 458 | 453 | 409 | 44 | ||||
2021** | 6,136 | -3.2 | 5,182 | -1.5 | 4,695 | 487 | 90.6 | 9.4 |
2020 | 6,340 | -29.0 | 5,263 | -26.6 | 4,707 | 556 | 89.4 | 10.6 |
2019 | 8,939 | 10.8 | 7,170 | 10.5 | 6,276 | 894 | 87.5 | 12.5 |
2018 | 8,071 | -13.1 | 6,490 | -13.3 | 5,724 | 766 | 88.2 | 11.8 |
2017 | 9,287 | -38.5 | 7,484 | -40.5 | 6,403 | 1,081 | 85.6 | 14.4 |
2016 | 15,099 | -12.2 | 12,579 | -11.3 | 10,033 | 2,546 | 79.8 | 20.2 |
2015 | 17,206 | 6.5 | 14,182 | 5.8 | 11,264 | 2,918 | 79.4 | 20.6 |
2014 | 16,155 | 2.7 | 13,408 | 2.7 | 10,723 | 2,685 | 80.0 | 20.0 |
2013 | 15,735 | -7.6 | 13,055 | -5.8 | 10,729 | 2,326 | 82.2 | 17.8 |
2012 | 17,026 | -1.7 | 13,860 | -0.7 | 11,709 | 2,151 | 84.5 | 15.5 |
2011 | 17,318 | 0.8 | 13,952 | 1.4 | 12,050 | 1,902 | 86.4 | 13.6 |
2010 | 17,179 | 11.4 | 13,758 | 11.5 | 12,057 | 1,701 | 87.6 | 12.4 |
*Year 2022 – these figures are for the period 1 Jan to 26 Jan 2022
**Year 2021 – Figures may be subject to slight change pending the Publication of the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2021
Table 2 Daily Average number of prisoners per institution for the period 2010 to 2021
Institution | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arbour Hill | 153 | 151 | 146 | 141 | 141 | 138 | 134 | 133 | 136 | 135 | 130 | 125 |
Castlerea | 378 | 364 | 361 | 354 | 338 | 308 | 293 | 292 | 300 | 306 | 297 | 286 |
Cloverhill | 465 | 433 | 429 | 402 | 413 | 359 | 382 | 356 | 402 | 400 | 362 | 369 |
Cork | 303 | 295 | 259 | 231 | 226 | 218 | 253 | 272 | 288 | 291 | 271 | 255 |
Limerick (female) | 26 | 31 | 28 | 29 | 27 | 24 | 31 | 28 | 33 | 36 | 28 | 28 |
Limerick (male) | 307 | 301 | 261 | 225 | 223 | 224 | 221 | 211 | 214 | 215 | 206 | 195 |
Loughan House | 134 | 122 | 104 | 124 | 119 | 116 | 116 | 109 | 110 | 106 | 105 | 95 |
Midlands | 542 | 586 | 616 | 762 | 823 | 805 | 814 | 818 | 823 | 840 | 814 | 802 |
Mountjoy (female) | 131 | 129 | 124 | 127 | 123 | 107 | 109 | 116 | 132 | 134 | 120 | 116 |
Mountjoy (male) | 667 | 616 | 603 | 537 | 556 | 537 | 515 | 563 | 679 | 684 | 667 | 691 |
Portlaoise | 263 | 270 | 278 | 262 | 246 | 218 | 198 | 221 | 227 | 232 | 225 | 211 |
Shelton Abbey | 99 | 102 | 102 | 104 | 102 | 101 | 101 | 98 | 97 | 102 | 93 | 96 |
**St. Patricks | 214 | 204 | 204 | 129 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Training Unit | 113 | 115 | 116 | 105 | 89 | 92 | 90 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wheatfield | 495 | 671 | 687 | 626 | 478 | 472 | 460 | 438 | 452 | 490 | 505 | 523 |
Total | 4,290 | 4,390 | 4,318 | 4,158 | 3,915 | 3,722 | 3,718 | 3,680 | 3,893 | 3,971 | 3,823 | 3,792 |
*Year 2021 – Figures may be subject to slight change pending the Publication of the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2021.
**St Patrick’s Institution closed on 07 April 2017
***The Training Unit closed on 22 May 2017
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