Prison not always the best solution

Concluding our series on the prison system, Cormac O’Keeffe examines government penal policy and finds rehabilitation is possible.

IN the last two days we’ve seen the depth of the problems facing the prison system. We also saw the good, and unnoticed, work going on in institutions like Wheatfield.

So where is government penal policy going? How do prisons compare with alternatives to custody?