Prison Statistics

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Table 1: Overview of prison population 1970-2006.
Table 2: Breakdown of total committals to prisons and places of detention 1981 – 2006.
Table 3: Number of committals for non-payment of fines and RTA offences 1990-2006.
Table 4: Breakdown of sentence length for persons sentenced to imprisonment 2001-2006.
Table 5: Offence by Sentence Length of Offender 2006.
Table 6: Sentence length for RTA offences and breakdown of committals for RTA offences by age 2001-2006.
Table 7: Number of persons committed to Irish prisons & places of detention 2001-2006.
Table 8: Age of persons committed to prison & places of detention 2001-2006.
Table 9: Gender of persons committed to prison & places of detention 2001-2006.
Table 10: Nationality of persons committed to prison & places of detention 2001-2006.

Table 10: Nationality of persons committed to prison & places of detention 2001-2006.

Nationality	2001	2002	2003	2004	20051	2006
Irish	7,806	7,551	7,194	7,016	6,501	6,799
EU	289	279	272	215	669	1,011
Other European	638	983	1,321	845	653	618
Asian	131	257	253	217	264	483
African	448	446	503	374	424	550
North American	12	21	14	17	13	19
Central/ South American	40	58	147	78	100	183
Australian/Asian	11	9	10	1	7	6
Not Recorded	164	112	100	57	55	31
Total	9,539	9,716	9,814	8,820	8,686	9,700

1. Figures for 2005 taken from the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2006. Some of these figures differ from their counterparts published in the 2005 report. The changing make-up of the EU is likely to have been a factor is this change.

(Source: Irish Prison Service Annual Reports, 2001-2006)

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Nationality	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Irish	82%	77%	73%	79%	74%	70%
EU	3%	3%	3%	2%	3%	10%
Other European	6%	10%	13%	9%	12%	6%
Asian	1%	2%	2%	2%	2%	5%
African	4%	4%	5%	4%	5%	6%
North American	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%
Central/ South American	<1%	<1%	1%	1%	1%	2%
Australian/Asian	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%	<1%
Not Recorded	1%	1%	1%	<1%	<1%	<1%
Total	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

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Table 10: Nationality of persons committed to prison & places of detention 2001-2006.

Table 10: Nationality of persons committed to prison & places of detention 2001-2006 (Percentages).