Irish Penal Reform Trust

Elections 2024

10 Priority Proposals for General Election Manifestos 2024 - IPRT

IPRT outlines 10 commitments that parties should adopt to make the way in which we deal with people who offend more effective, humane, and less costly – financially and socially.

Prison Insider: Prisons on the margins of European elections

On 4 June 2024, Prison Insider writes about the stances taken by political groups in the European Parliament regarding enhancing dignity, rights, and conditions for prisoners throughout the European Union.

EU Elections 2024: Pledge Support for the European Movement for Small-Scale Detention Housing

IPRT is asking election candidates running in the European Parliament elections to pledge to support the European Movement for Small-Scale Detention Housing - a just, sustainable, and community-integrated alternative to large prisons.

The Journal: Opinion - Allowing prisoners to vote is a symbolic indication that they remain citizens

Vice-chair of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) board, Dr Cormac Behan, outlined how prisoners in Ireland were given the right to vote and how the process now works in an opinion piece in The Journal.

Voting in Prison - National Voter Registration Day 2024

On the National Day of Voter Register 2024, Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) is highlighting that people in prison have the same right to register to vote as people in the community. The right to vote should be facilitated and protected within the prison estate, just as it is in the rest of our community.

Letter to Governors: Voting in prison

Irish Penal Reform Trust has written to Prison Governors asking them to put in place measures to support voter registration and facilitate voting in each prison ahead of the upcoming local and European elections.

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