An increasing number of children are being sent to the state’s detention centre for very serious offences, including causing death.
They’re being detained for longer sentences, according to a new annual report.
Last year about 70 per cent of young-offenders in Oberstown, Co Dublin, had substance misuse problems.
Former governor of Mountjoy Prison, John Lonergan, says the rise in serious offences is concerning.
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