6,681 imprisoned for non-payment of fines in 2010 | Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT)

6,681 imprisoned for non-payment of fines in 2010 Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT): "“At a time of scarce resources, the continuing damaging and wasteful practice of imprisonment for fines should be a cause of national embarrassment. This rising rate of imprisonment is proof that our system of fines is not functioning; and while the enactment of legislation to address this is welcome, the failure to follow-up at the administrative level is costing significant amounts on an ongoing basis. As well as avoidable costs to prisons, courts and Gardaí, more importantly individuals are being committed to our overcrowded and unsafe prisons in cases where judges have already determined that prisons sentences are not appropriate.”?
IPRT is now calling on all(political) parties to"