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Ireland

Capital city — Dublin

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Country-profile

Overview

Organisation

Name of authority in charge of the prison service

Department of Justice and Equality

Budget of the prison service

359,010,000

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 130.

Prison population

Total number of prisoners

4,052

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.

Variation in the number of prisoners

9.85% increase

(between 2008 and 2018)

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2018
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Number of people serving non-custodial sentences

7,191

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2020, p. 30.

Variation in the number of people serving non-custodial sentences

13.19% increase

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE II – Report 2020, p. 30.

Incarceration rate (per 100,000 inhabitants)

81.6

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 33.

Variation in the incarceration rate

14.7% decrease

(between 2010 and 2020)

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 34.

Number of admissions

8,939

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 97.

Number of releases

8,667

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 104.

Average length of imprisonment (in months)

5.3

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2019
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 124.

Prison density

88 %

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30/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Prison facilities

Total number of prison facilities

12

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2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Total official capacity of the prison facilities

4,375

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30/07/2021
/ World Prison Brief, ICPR

Staff

Number of prison guards (FTE)

2,561

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 82.

Guard to prisoner ratio

1 : 1.6

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31/01/2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 86.

Number of socio-educational workers (FTE)

318.5

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p. 83.

Percentage of socio-educational workers in relation to the entire prison staff

9.3 %

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2020
/ Council of Europe, SPACE I – Report 2020, p.84.