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Welcome to Ireland's most comprehensive resource on prisons and prisoners' rights

Search over 2,000 documents, articles, reports and parliamentary questions in our archive

The Irish Penal Reform Trust is Ireland's leading non-governmental organisation campaigning for the rights of people in prison and the progressive reform of Irish penal policy.

The IPRT is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

WHAT'S NEW ON IPRT.IE?

• Position Paper on Spent Convictions Bill 2007

• IPRT welcomes First Interim Report by Inpsector of Prisons
  
• NDA Host Conference on Mental Health and Criminal Justice
  
• UN Human Rights Committee Shares IPRT Concerns

• IPRT Strategic Plan 2008-2010 Approved by AGM

• DPAG publishes Policy Paper on Drugs in Prison
  
• IPRT Publishes Position Paper on Thornton Hall
• Concern at Plans for Immigration Detention
  
• IPRT Welcomes Plans for Child Detention Centre
  
• "Unsafe and Degrading" - CPT verdict on Irish Prisons
  
• "The Whitaker Committee Report 20 Years On - Lessons Learned or Lessons Forgotten?"
• Check IPRT in the News and Press Releases for the latest IPRT media commentary.