Advocacy strategy needed for prisoners’ children, say groups

The call was made by the Irish Penal Reform Trust, the Children’s Rights Alliance, and Dr Fiona Donson and Dr Aisling Parkes of the School of Law at University College Cork at a conference organised by UCC and held in Dublin yesterday.
The ‘Unseen Unheard Conference’ featured contributions from the Irish Prison Service, Tusla, the Limerick-based Bedford Row Family Project that supports families of prisoners, and who outlined the adversity many families can face when a member is jailed.