With a general election looming in the Republic, just 191 out of a prison population of 4, 500 are currently on the electoral register, according to the Irish Prison Service - barely 4% of all those currently behind bars.

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Mold Crown Court heard Giuseppe Michael Calvert, 19, had been out of prison for just three weeks when he burnt the garage and tried to burn the back door.

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After the one day of getting out of prison, he said, it just kept dawning on him that yeah, he was out, but he was out in a world with no job and no prospects, somehow had to feed himself and what was left of his family.

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