NI prison intake up for first time since 2012
The number of people being registered in prisons in Northern Ireland has risen for the first time since 2012.
The Department of Justice has released the annual figures.
Those show that in 2015, the total number of receptions was 4757, while in 2016, it rose to 5199.
There was also a rise in prisoners on remand for the first time in 5 years.
Those figures jumped from 2633 in 2015, to 2843 last year.
However, the average daily prison population did see a fall for the second year in a row.
It decreased from 1661 in 2015 to 1482 in 2016.
There were 87 prisoners per 100,000 people in the population in 2015.
While that was higher than the Republic in 2015, the figure was lower than England, Scotland and Wales.