Organisation: Penal reform trust

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Penal Reform Trust calls for cut in use of solitary confinement in prisons

The Irish Prison Service is being urged to abolish the practice of solitary confinement.

Penal Reform Trust needs to include ex-prisoners, not exclude them

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President’s adviser to get salary below government cap

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‘Prisoners are human beings... but a big percentage never had a chance in life’

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Penal Reform Trust pushes for changes in Limerick jail

HIV/Aids policies criticised in Europe-wide study

THE country’s HIV/Aids policies, especially in prisons, have been criticised in a Europe-wide survey.

Wed, 14 Oct, 2009

Psychiatric service - Cinderella of the health system

CONCERNS voiced by the Penal Reform Trust have focused the spotlight on Coalition spending on prison padded cells while, at the same time, shamefully neglecting the country’s psychiatric services.

Tue, 06 Dec, 2005

Penal Reform Trust criticises electronic tagging plans

The Irish Penal Reform Trust has criticised Justice Minister Michael McDowell's plans to introduce an electronic tagging system for certain offenders as an alternative to custodial sentences.

Mon, 17 Jan, 2005

Penal Reform Trust slams mandatory drug tests for prisoners

The Irish Penal Reform Trust has criticised Justice Minister Michael McDowell's plans to introduce mandatory drug testing in all Irish prisons.

Thu, 06 Jan, 2005

IPRT slams planned crackdown on drugs in prison

The Irish Penal Reform Trust has claimed that Justice Minister Michael McDowell will fail in his plan to make all Irish prisons completely drug-free.

Wed, 29 Sep, 2004

Penal Reform Trust criticises planned ‘super-prison’

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has criticised the Government’s plans to build a new “super-prison” to replace Mountjoy Jail in Dublin, describing them as “ill-conceived”.

Tue, 03 Aug, 2004

Penal reform trust criticises privatisations

The Irish Penal Reform Trust has criticised Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s plans to privatise two prisons.

Mon, 05 Jan, 2004

Forum to discuss spread of disease in prisons

The Penal Reform Trust and the Merchant’s Quay project are holding a forum today to discuss the spread of HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C in Ireland’s prisons.

Thu, 11 Dec, 2003

State ‘failing to tackle causes of youth crime’

BUDGET cuts to the probation, prison education services and youth programmes reveal the Government’s “deep indifference” to tackling the causes of crime, a juvenile justice group said last night.

Thu, 04 Dec, 2003

Resistance to ministers plan for prisons grows

The Minster for Justice, Michael McDowell, wants to close Spike Island, in Cork, and the Curragh, in Co Kildare.

Tue, 11 Nov, 2003

Penal Reform Trust welcomes McDowell comments on prisons

The Irish Penal Reform Trust has welcomed the Government’s commitment not to privatise all of Ireland’s prisons.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2003

Mentally-ill prisoners denied rights

In addition to four suicides in Irish prisons in 2002, there were 93 parasuicides, which are classified as non-fatal acts deliberately undertaken

Mon, 02 Jun, 2003

McDowell: Tackle prison drug culture to reduce crime

The Minister for Justice has said he is not surprised by today’s report from the Penal Reform Trust that shows the rate of HIV and Hepatitus C infections among Irish prisoners is reaching epidemic proportions.

Fri, 26 Jul, 2002

New moves to end prison overcrowding

Prisoners in Ireland will no longer be forced into overcrowded prisons and subjected to the daily humiliation of 'slopping out', under new proposals announced today.

Tue, 09 Oct, 2001