Home for Christmas? A history of temporary release for prisoners in Ireland
Analysis: Christmas amnesties for prisoners peaked in 1995 with 390 granted temp [...]
Top bosses join forces to get thousands of offenders into work
Top UK business leaders will spearhead a major new drive to get thousands of off [...]
The next government needs to adopt a new approach to the criminal justice system
Saoirse Brady of the Irish Penal Reform Trust says the new government should lis [...]
US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a ‘clean slate’
Civil rights advocates across the US have long fought to free people from their [...]
The No Show, and exploring working-class generation trauma
Over two years, artists Catherine O’Halloran and Grace Dyas created The No Show, [...]
Prisoners on best behaviour get to swap cell block for garden shop
An open prison in Cavan offers greater freedom and responsibility to inmates, wh [...]
‘I feel super gassed’: Lady Unchained, the prison radio host playing inmates’ raps
Hosted by poet and broadcaster Lady Unchained, Free Flow lets prisoners phone in [...]
Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries
Inmates cook together, eat together – and sometimes even forage together. It put [...]
Fishmongers’ Hall heroes in housing project for ex-inmates
Many prisoners are homeless after release but former inmate and probation worker [...]
The Dublin 7 coffee company staffed by former prisoners
The busy Four Courts outlet was set up to give its workforce a second chance. In [...]