Circumstances of People Linked to Justice Sanctions 2015-2021

1st November 2023

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) released its report Circumstances of Persons Linked to Justice Sanctions 2015-2021.

In total, 29,000 released prisoners and 38,000 persons identified by the Probation Service as having received Probation Orders from 2015-2021 were included in the study.

See IPRT's response to the report here.

Some key points from the report:

• Only one in four people who had served time in prison are actually linked with employment, with the majority reliant on a social welfare payment. 
• People who had a probation order were more likely to be linked with employment than those who have served a prison sentence. 
• The top three sectors in which justice-linked people were employed were construction, administration, and industry.

Read the Circumstances of People Linked to Justice Sanctions 2015-2021 report here.

See more:

• The Irish Times: Three quarters of those released from prison in 2018 not working three years later, CSO shows