Sir, - While our newspapers are filled with details of the most recent financial scandal our courts brim over with the poor and the marginalised. There can be little doubt that it is those without means who feel most sharply the bit of the law. As ever, the rich get richer but the poor get prison. - Yours, etc.,
Dr Ian O'Donnell,
Director,
Irish Penal Reform Trust,
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