The number of persons in prison for non payment of debt was less than 0.5 per cent of the total prison population on any one day last year, the Minister for Justice, Mrs Owen, said in a written reply in the Dail yesterday.
0.5% in jail for not paying debts
The number of persons in prison for non payment of debt was less than 0
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