Prisons

Wales has the highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe, according to research by Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre. Sentencing and Immediate Custody in Wales: A Factfile provides a statistical comparison of sentencing and immediate custody figures in Wales and England.

Penal reform campaigners have welcomed reports that plans for a 2,200-person "super-prison" in north Dublin have been abandoned. Deirdre Malone, executive director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT), told Irish Legal News that the news "demonstrates positive progress in Irish penal policy over t