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# community-service - Monday 22 October, 2012

You So Fine

Law reform will allow fines to be paid in instalments

22/10/12 5,759 Views 43 Comments

A new scheme approved by ministers could see unpaid fines deducted from a person’s wages if they remain unpaid.

# community-service - Thursday 16 August, 2012

Community Service

Community service use increased by 40 per cent in 2011

16/08/12 1,849 Views 11 Comments

Minister Alan Shatter said community service reduces expenditure on prison services and requires offenders to make recompense for their crimes.

# community-service - Thursday 15 March, 2012

Opinion

Column: 7 essential ways to fix our broken prison system

15/03/12 3,746 Views 58 Comments

Our prisons have become pressure cookers, bursting at the seams and increasingly difficult to police. Eoin O’Carroll sets out new ideas for reform.

# community-service - Sunday 2 October, 2011

Daily Fix This post contains videos

The Daily Fix: Sunday

02/10/11 1,620 Views 4 Comments

In this evening’s fix: the latest from the presidential campaign trail and the Sinn Féin/Fine Gael war of words, 700 arrested in New York, and an early Halloween fright…

Prisons

Plan to cut prison numbers by boosting community service

02/10/11 318 Views 11 Comments

New legislation will force judges to consider community work instead of jail for minor offenders.

# community-service - Friday 6 May, 2011

Prisons

Dáil will delay summer break to pass new prison laws

06/05/11 789 Views 7 Comments

Alan Shatter says new legislation to reduce the prison population will be passed by the end of July.

# community-service - Tuesday 22 March, 2011

Community Service

The new government’s first legislation… the old government’s policy

22/03/11 785 Views 6 Comments

The new government’s first legislation, to go before the Dáil tomorrow, advances policies laid down by the last cabinet.

# community-service - Monday 21 March, 2011

Community Service

More criminals to do community service instead of jail time

21/03/11 809 Views 8 Comments

New justice bill will require judges to consider handing down community service order instead of sentences of 12 months and under.

Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Monday

21/03/11 1,240 Views 5 Comments

In today’s Fix: Getting convicts into the community, to target or not to target Gaddafi, the preservation of civil servants’ privilege days and one man’s transfixing video of the ground beneath his feet.

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