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New Research Shows Up To 70% Of People In Prison Have Personality Disorders.

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In the population in general between 4% and 11% of people live with personal disorders.

The majority of people in prison in Ireland live with personality disorders.

That's according to a senior Irish Prison Service psychologist, Dr Margaret McGovern.

In the population in general, the Irish Times reports, between 4% and 11% of people live with personal disorders.

Fíona Ní Chinnéide is Executive Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.

She joined Clem Ryan on Tuesday's edition of Kildare Today:

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