Irish Penal Reform Trust reported on our activities and achievements during 2023 at our most recent AGM. Read about our work inourAnnual Report 2023.
IPRT has submitted our pre-Budget submission to legislators for consideration ahead of Budget 2025. Read IPRT's submission.
Invitation to Tender: IPRT is seeking to commission an expert researcher(s) to explore the financial impact on families with children and associated implications where an immediate family member (parent or sibling) is imprisoned. Full details are available here.
On 22 August 2024, IPRT brought together a wide variety of organisations to examine challenges that people in prison face in understanding what their rights are, what remedies are available, and how to empower them to assert their rights. More about the event.
Learn more about Community Service Orders, Conditional Discharge, Custodial Sentences, Deferred Sentences, Dismissal, Fines, Life Sentences, and Suspended Sentences. Read our easy-to-read explainers.
Read the latest newsletter from Irish Penal Reform Trust. Highlights in this edition include events on working with convictions, sentencing alternatives to prison, and justice across the island; raising the issues of overcrowding and prison expansion; information on how to take press complaints, voting in prison and more.
Action for Children and Families of Prisoners Network is a network led by IPRT focused on acting as a unified voice to bring about positive sustained change for children and families affected by imprisonment in Ireland. Read more about our work for children and families of people in prison.
IPRT report launched: "The Secondary Punishment”: A Scoping Study on Employer Attitudes to Hiring People with Criminal Convictions. Read the report.
Read about the event launch of IPRT report Progress in the Penal System (PIPS) 2022: A framework for penal reform on Friday 26 May 2023. Read about the event and the report here.
IPRT published our latest report ‘Maternal Imprisonment in Ireland: A Scoping Study’ Thursday 2 March 2023.
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