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Justice minister says prisons shouldn’t be ‘clogged up’ with shoplifters or people living with addiction
Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan said that he wants to addressing prison overcrowding. MINISTER FOR JUSTICE Jim O’Callaghan intends to enact legislation to increase the use of community s [...]
‘The idea that people are having a great time in prison is a bit of a fallacy’
The biggest problem facing long-term inmates when they return to society is how life on the outside has “moved on without them”, the governor of one of Ireland’s two open prisons has s [...]
Mountjoy grappling with an ‘overcrowding crisis’, says governor
The governor of Mountjoy Prison has said he is grappling with an “overcrowding crisis”, with 922 inmates in a prison with maximum official capacity for 755 people. David Tracey said th [...]
ASU professor, Arizona inmate work to rehabilitate the ‘imprisoned mind’
New book tells the stories of 6 incarcerated men, explores trauma-informed treatment for inmates. An Arizona State University professor has collaborated with an Arizona inmate on a boo [...]
‘Prison is not a place for rehabilitation’: jailed rapper Marnz Malone on confronting inmate suicide
In November 2022, one year into an 11-year prison sentence for firearm charges, Birmingham rapper Marnz Malone was hanging out with his friends during “sosh”, or association time, on h [...]
‘Katie was too scared in prison to keep living’
The brother of a young woman who took her own life while in a young person's prison says the justice system killed her. Katie Allan was found dead in her cell at Polmont Young Offender [...]