Ireland
Crises
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Ireland
Prison overcrowding is at another crisis point with all secure jails having reached, or exceeded, capacity for the first time. The number of incarcerated male in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, has this week grown to 1,000 for the first time.
Europe
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Ireland
The deprivation of a person’s liberty alone is a core punitive sanction that has a long-lasting and often traumatic impact on an individual – the conditions and treatment experienced by individuals in prison should not be used as an additional punishment.
Women
Europe
Facilities
Overcrowding
Ireland
The women’s wing of Limerick Prison is currently operating at twice its capacity. That’s according to the Irish Prison Service’s latest figures, which show that the women’s wing is housing 91 incarcerated people, despite having a maximum capacity of just 56 beds.
Europe
LGBTQI
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Ireland
The Irish Prison Service (IPS)’s long-awaited policy guidance on the appropriate housing of trans people in prison has been delayed further, as officials struggle to identify a suitable model.
Crises
Europe
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Ireland
The prison, which has a capacity of 296, had 372 people in custody yesterday, representing 126% capacity. It has broken its own overcrowding record, with 76 person in custody currently sleeping on mattresses on the floor due to a lack of bed space.
Ireland: women in largest female prison were accompanied by multiple guards to cervical screenings
News
Women
Europe
Health
Mental health
Ireland
Women who underwent cervical screening in Limerick’s female prison had to be accompanied by two to three guards up to last year, leading to a low take up.
Women
Europe
Mental health
Drugs
Facilities
Alternatives
Ireland
More investment is needed to better support people struggling with addiction, poverty, and trauma to reduce Ireland’s prison population, a general election hustings by the Irish Prison Reform Trust (IPRT) has heard.
Ireland: adverse motherhood experience
Interview
Women
Europe
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Ireland
The number of women incarcerated throughout the world is steadily increasing. Many of these are mothers. What is the impact of mothers’ imprisonment? The IPRT recently examined the experiences of mothers imprisoned in Ireland and of their children. Interview.
Europe
Material conditions
Ireland
“The prison service has changed hugely in the last 10 years or so, and the case of locking prisoners up and throwing away the key is gone,” Ger Manley, governor of Cork Prison, told The Echo in an interview at the prison.
“Nowadays we’re looking at rehabilitating prisoners through our workshops, th…
Europe
Justice
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Ireland
The Irish Prison Service has confirmed that prisons have reached capacity and are now overcrowded, following a temporary dip during the Covid-19 pandemic
Ireland: managing uncertainty
Analysis
Coronavirus
Europe
Material conditions
Activities
Social ties
Ireland
As the COVID-19 outbreaks around the world suprised most governments, how did the Irish authorities respond to the crisis behind the bars? Were prison authorities prepared to avoid the spread of the virus? Which measures were taken and how did them impact prisoners’ lives?