asked the Minister for Justice if he will give an estimate of the total amount of persons who will be in custody in each of the prisons or similar institutions under his control on 25 December 1978.
Written Answers. - Numbers in Custody.
254.
The number of persons in custody in the prisons and places of detention on 25 December 1978 will depend on the number of persons who, in accordance with the usual practice, are released for a short period to enable them to spend Christmas with their families or who will be given some extra remission of their sentence to enable their outright release to take place just before rather than just after Christmas. As applications for release on that basis are still under consideration, an accurate estimate of the number who will remain in custody on 25 December 1978 cannot be given at this stage.
The actual numbers in custody on 12 December 1978 were as follows:——
|
Mountjoy, Men |
419 |
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Mountjoy, Women |
15 |
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Limerick, Men |
95 |
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Limerick, Women |
9 |
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Cork |
40 |
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Arbour Hill |
67 |
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Portlaoise |
174 |
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Glengarriff Training Unit |
64 |
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Shelton Abbey |
36 |
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St. Patricks |
175 |
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Shanganagh Castle |
40 |
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|
Men |
1,110 |
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Women |
24 |
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Total |
1,134 |
If the Deputy repeats his question in January 1979, I shall give him the actual number who were in custody in each centre on 25 December, 1978.