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The purpose of this board was to advise the director general and directors of the Irish Prison Service on the management of the penal system. [6] In 2002 the retired High Court Judge, Dermot Kinlen, was appointed the state's first Inspector of Irish Prisons. [7]
As of 2018, the Irish Prison Service oversees 12 facilities with an official capacity of 4,269, and a total population of 3,992, including pretrial detainees. Among all prisoners, 4.6% are female, 16.7% are pretrial detainees, and 1.0% are under the age of 18.
The Midlands Prison (Irish: Príosún Lár na Tíre) is a medium security prison in Portlaoise, County Laois.It receives prisoners who are aged 17 years and over. It has a bed capacity of 870 and its daily average number of inmates resident in 2009 was 512.
Irish Prison Service St. Patrick's Institution , North Circular Road , Dublin 7 , was an Irish penal facility for 16- to 21-year-old males. It had a capacity of 217 beds and had an average inmate population of 221 in 2009.
Loughan House Open Centre (/ l ɒ k ˈ æ n /; [1] Irish: Teach an Locháin) is a low-security, open detention centre in Blacklion, County Cavan, Ireland. It was purchased by the Department of Justice in 1972 to be converted to a prison facility. It is low security, and caters for male inmates. [2] Its current governor is Mr Mark Lydon.
The director-general of the Irish Prison Service, Brian Purcell, categorised the inmates as a quarter serving sentences for murder, manslaughter or conspiracy to murder, another quarter serving sentences of over a year for robbery, theft or criminal-damage offences with a 20% plus serving sentences for possession of drugs for the purpose of supply.
The Training Unit (Irish: Ionad Traenála) is a semi-open, low security prison located on the grounds of the Mountjoy Prison campus in Dublin 7.It receives prisoners eighteen years of age and over and is designed to provide industrial training to inmates prior to the release.
Life imprisonment (Irish: príosúnacht saoil) [1] in the Republic of Ireland may last for the natural life of the convict. While life imprisonment is the most severe penalty possible under Irish law, it is not necessarily "life imprisonment" in practice, as not all of the life sentence is generally served in prison custody.