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Prison Statistics

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Table 1: Overview of prison population between 1970-2006.
Table 2: Breakdown of total committals to prisons and places of detention between 1981 – 2006.
Table 3: Number of committals for non-payment of fines and RTA offences between 1990-2006.
Table 4: Breakdown of sentence length for persons sentenced to imprisonment between 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 between 2001-2006.
Table 8: Age of persons committed to prison & places of detention between 2001-2006.
Table 9: Gender of persons committed to prison & places of detention between 2001-2006.
Table 10: Nationality of persons committed to prison & places of detention between 2001-2006.

Table 9: Gender of persons committed to prison & places of detention 2001- 2006.

Year	Male (% total)	Female (% total)	Total
2001	8,616 (90%)	923 (10%)	9,539
2002	8,673 (89%)	1,043 (11%)	9,716
2003	8,664 (88%)	1,145 (12%)	9,814
2004	7,914 (90%)	906 (10%)	8,820
2005	7,780 (90%)	906 (10%)	8,686
2006	8,740 (90%)	960 (10%)	9,700

(Source: Irish Prison Service Annual Reports)

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