Young adults are more responsive to rehabilitative measures than older adults – but the wrong interventions can limit opportunities and deepen offending behaviour. Alternative sentencing and policy approaches are needed to reduce the offending rate among young adults.
11th October 2024
This legislation will address an issue of unconstitutionality recently identified by the High Court in which the Court ruled that a child who commits murder but turns 18 years old before sentencing should not be subject to the mandatory life sentence for murder.
9th October 2024
MEDIA RELEASE: Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) welcomes the publication of Health Information and Quality Authority’s (HIQA) most recent inspection report on Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus published today (9 October 2024) but highlights concerns noted in the report.
9th October 2024
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has today, 9 October 2024, published an inspection report on Oberstown Children Detention Campus.
3rd July 2024
Oberstown has published its annual report for the year 2023. The report outlines a number of key developments made in providing care for young people in custody, in addition to progression pathways for those leaving the facility.
4th July 2023
Oberstown has published its annual report for the year 2022. The report outlines a number of key developments made in providing care for young people in custody, in addition to progression pathways for those leaving the facility.
9th February 2023
Following the recent examination of Ireland under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, IPRT responds to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) Concluding Observations.
24th January 2023
MEDIA RELEASE: IPRT, in attending the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) in Geneva, highlighted the need for urgent Government action on youth justice and children with a family member in prison in Ireland.
18th January 2023
IPRT appreciates the opportunity to make this submission to the Department of Justice, as part of its public consultation on the topic of diversion paths for young adults aged 18–24. The Department’s...
21st June 2022
CSO reoffending data show that almost 62.3% of people released from prison in 2016 re-offended within three years of their release. The data indicates that 44.6% of people released from prison in 2019 reoffended in the year following their release.
23rd May 2022
IPRT Executive Director Saoirse Brady was a panel respondent at this important Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and the Children’s Rights Alliance webinar.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.