The prison population at the end of last year reached 569. Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela said this evening.
Replying to a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, the minister said 129 were under preventive arrest.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Replying to another question by Dr Mifsud Bonnici, Justice Minister Owen Bonnici said a total 5,820 hours of community service were ordered by the Courts last year in 45 cases.
The minister said the number of hours in 2014 was 3,256, in 2013 2,550, in 2012 2,000, in 2011 1,000 and in 2010 1,950.