Asian immigrants, many claiming trafficking or exploitation, make up 75 per cent of those going to prison for large scale cannabis cultivation in Ireland.
An analysis of sentencing data from cases coming before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court shows that, over the last 2½ years, two-thirds of these immigrants claimed some form of exploitation or maltreatment but that all 24 went to prison, with an average sentence of three years.
In contrast, most non-Asian defendants were given suspended sentences, with only eight out of 25 going to prison.
None of this group claimed exploitation or maltreatment and their average jail sentence was one year.
Souirce: Conor Gallagher, Irish Times, 04/11/2013
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