Increase in number of people given prison sentences
The latest report from the Irish Prison Service shows there was almost a 9% increase in the number of people sent to prison last year.
Almost 14,000 people were given a prison sentence in 2015, up from 12,853 in the previous year.
The highest proportion of these were due to Road and Traffic Offences, while over 1 thousand 6 hundred of these sentences were for offences against the Government or organised crime.
Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald, has launched a strategic plan to improve the prison service from now until 2021:
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