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Historically, Ireland has enjoyed an extremely low rate of imprisonment. Recently, however, there has been considerable growth in the prison population. ==Authority== In 1925, shortly after the establishment of the Irish Free State, the then Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, introduced legislation repealing the existing ability of grand juries to appoint visiting committees to Irish prisons. Instead, the authority to appoint the members of prison visiting committees was vested solely in the person of the Minister.〔(Prisons (Visiting Committees) Act, 1925 ).〕 Similarly, the management of the Irish prison system passed to the control of the Minister with the dissolution by statutory instrument of the General Prisons Board in 1928.〔(S.I. No. 79/1928 — General Prisons Board (Transfer of Functions) Order, 1928 ).〕 Thus, by this date, both the responsibility and control over the management and oversight of the Irish Prison Service was held within the Minister's department. This situation remained unchanged until 1999 when the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, John O'Donoghue, established the Irish Prison Service to which was delegated the task of managing the day-to-day running of the prison system. Simultaneously in 1999 a Prisons Authority Interim Board was established and its members were appointed by the Minister in 2000. The purpose of this board was to advise the Director General and directors of the Irish Prison Service on the management of the penal system.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Functions of Interim Prison Board )〕 In 2002 the retired High Court Judge, Dermot Kinlen, was appointed the state's first Inspector of Irish Prisons. However, none of these new bodies was ever established on a statutory basis despite indications to the contrary. indeed, as recently as January 2011 Dermot Ahern informed the Dáil that: In 2009 the Irish Prison Service had an annual budget of €379.319 million and it had a staff of 3,568 people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prisons in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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