Latest News
- Ebulletin #125
- IPRT Statement on Budget 2026
- IPRT presented to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration on Pre-legislative scrutiny of the General Scheme: Criminal Law and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025
- IPRT Response to Irish Prison Service's Annual Report 2024
- Council of Europe Human Rights Watchdog Calls for Urgent Action Amid Concerns of Inhuman and Degrading Treatment in Irish Prisons - IPRT
Latest Events
- Panel discussion to reflect on the recent report of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) on its official visit to Ireland
- Celebrating 30 years of the Irish Penal Reform Trust
- IPRT Cross-Party Hustings on Penal Reform
- Report launch: Boxed Out: Higher Education, Criminal Convictions, and Perceptions of Risk
- Report launch: Access to Justice: Legal Pathways to Justice for the Rights of People in Prison
IPRT in the news
- Lack of clarity over budget funding for addiction and mental health supports in prisons
- Children's Ombudsman calls to extend youth justice sanctions to adults under 24
- Prisons today Alternative sentences for most prisoners? Podcast Interview on Near FM with Saoirse Brady
- Niamh McCormack spoke to Angela Noone-Faull of CRCfm in Mayo on The Chatroom,
- Prison overcrowding crisis has deepened further this year
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