Darren O'Rourke
Question:303. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice the number of prisoners in each prison on 31 May 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [27255/24]
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The Irish Prison Service must accept into custody all people committed to prison by the Courts Service. As such, the Irish Prison Service has no control over the numbers committed to custody at any given time.
I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that the information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of prisoners in custody in each of the prisons is published on a daily basis and is available on the Irish Prison Service website www.irishprisons.ie . This information can be located in the Information Centre – under Statistics & Information – Daily Prisoner Population.
To be of assistance, the Irish Prison Service have extracted the information requested from their website and the number of prisoners in custody as at 31st May 2022, 31st May 2023 and 31st May 2024 is provided in the table below .
|
Institution |
31 May 2022 |
31 May 2023 |
31 May 2024 |
|
Mountjoy Prison(Male) |
727 |
801 |
887 |
|
Mountjoy Prison (Female) |
137 |
162 |
180 |
|
Cloverhill Prison |
420 |
446 |
485 |
|
Wheatfield Prison |
547 |
569 |
624 |
|
Midlands Prison |
870 |
918 |
959 |
|
Portlaoise Prison |
213 |
219 |
237 |
|
Cork Prison |
263 |
302 |
338 |
|
Limerick Prison (Male) |
213 |
287 |
316 |
|
Limerick Prison (Female) |
33 |
45 |
73 |
|
Castlerea Prison |
348 |
375 |
388 |
|
Arbour Hill Prison |
130 |
135 |
134 |
|
Loughan House |
107 |
135 |
123 |
|
Shelton Abbey |
96 |
109 |
108 |
|
Training Unit |
0* |
95 |
98 |
|
Total |
4,104 |
4,598 |
4,950 |
* The Training Unit closed on 12th May 2017 and was re-opened on 18th July 2022