Overhauling the treatment of sex offenders in Irish prisons

The Irish Prison Service's top psychologist Dr Emma Regan on her plans to radically overhaul the treatment of sex offenders in prisons and, in so doing, making it safer for society when they are released

Dr Emma Regan, Head of Psychological Services, Irish Prison Service. outside Midlands Prison in Portlaoise. Pictures: Moya Nolan

Emma Regan asks people to consider the following when they question the value of treating sex offenders in prison. 

You are on the bus or in a shopping centre going about your business. As can happen, you start chatting to a man you are sitting beside or standing near to.