In this section you can find IPRT newsletters and articles from 2003-2005. For IPRT e-bulletins from 2004 to present, please click here.
21st January 2004
Dr Ursula Kilkelly is a law lecturer at University College Cork where she teaches human rights and youth justice and contributes to the Criminal Justice (Clinical) Masters programme.
21st January 2004
Dr Linda Moore is investigations and research worker at the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. She is the co-author of In Our Care: Promoting the Rights of Children in Custody, a report on the findings of the Commission's investigation into the human rights of children in custody in Northern Ireland.
21st January 2004
Paul O'Mahony, Ph.D is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Head of the School of Occupational Therapy in Trinity College, Dublin. He was a founding member of the IPRT and a member of the National Crime Forum and is editor of Criminal Justice in Ireland (2002) and author of Crime and Punishment in Ireland (1993), Criminal Chaos: Seven Crises in Irish Criminal Justice (1996), Mountjoy Prisoners: A Sociological and Criminological Profile (1997) and Prison Policy in Ireland: Criminal Justice versus Social Justice (2000).
21st January 2004
Rob Allen, Director of Rethinking Crime and Punishment in London and a member of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.
21st January 2004
In almost thirty years of working with homeless young people, Fr Peter McVerry, SJ believes that the problem is now worse than ever before.
14th October 2003
In July, the First Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Places of Detention was published. In addition, the Inspector also released individual reports on the conditions at Mountjoy/Dóchas, Cloverhill, Limerick and Portlaoise Prisons.
14th October 2003
On page 50 of the First Annual Inspector of Prisons Report is a small section on the issue of private prisons - a piece that managed to slip through without garnering any media attention.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.