By signing up for the IPRT newsletter, you'll receive emails about penal reform developments and information about upcoming IPRT projects and events that we think might be of interest to you. You can sign up here.
If you would like us to post a print copy to someone in prison, please contact us on 01-8741400 or email info@iprt.ie
27th February 2018
Highlights in this edition include: Launch of 'Behind the Door': Solitary Confinement in the Irish Penal System; Breaking the Care to Prison Pipeline; Submissions to Law Reform Commission and The Probation Service Strategic Plan; Joint Committee on Education and Skills 'Education Inequality and Disadvantage' and more.
20th December 2017
Highlights in this edition include: Season's Greetings from IPRT; IPRT Annual Review 2016-2017; Progress in the Penal System (PIPS); OPCAT Campaign; Spent Convictions Campaign; Update and Save the Date Solitary Confinement Project.
5th September 2017
Highlights in this edition include: 'Unseen, Unheard': Children with a Parent in Prison; IPRT AGM 2017, 21st September 2017; 'Working with Convictions' Seminar, 26th September 2017; UNCAT and Places of Detention in Ireland; IPRT events in October and more.
27th June 2017
Highlights in this edition include: Save the Date for IPRT AGM 2017; Prisons under the UN Spotlight; National Advocacy Strategy for Children with a Parent in Prison; IPRT Submissions, and more.
1st March 2017
Highlights in this edition include: New IPRT project Progress in the Penal System (PIPS); Issues facing women in detention raised at CEDAW; Health and mental health care in prisons; Legislative developments in prisons and penal reform; and more.
21st December 2016
Highlights in this edition include: IPRT Year in Review: Season's Greetings; Update from IPRT's Friends Event; Tribute to Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly.
18th November 2016
Highlights in this edition include: IPRT Team entrances and exits; Update from IPRT's AGM & Members Event and Annual Report 2015-2016; Launch of Older People in Prison Report 30th September; All-Party Penal Reform Group Briefing Seminar on Parole Bill 2016.
7th September 2016
Highlights in this edition include: IPRT's AGM & Members Event 22nd September; Launch of Older People in Prison Report 30th September; IPRT Team entrances; Industrial Action at Oberstown Youth Detention Centre and more.
11th July 2016
Highlights in this edition include: IPRT's commitment to full transparency and accountability; IPRT Team ~ Exits & Entrances; New Publications from IPRT; Penal Reform Updates; and more.
15th April 2016
Highlights in this edition include: IPRT's upcoming Prison Litigation Conference and Workshop; penal reform updates; and an EU project on harm reduction in prisons.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.