Last week in the Seanad, Senator Eoghan Harris put forward a novel proposal that the Minister for Justice should consider introducing an amnesty for minor offenders currently in prison to mark the release of the Ryan Commission Report. Read more
The current level of overcrowding in Mountjoy can only be described as at a critical level. The current situation goes beyond ideas of penal reform, rehabilitation of offenders or prison regimes. It is far more basic than that. Read more
