Irish Penal Reform Trust

Medical Independent: Lights out on prison healthcare

10th June 2010

"With a rapidly-growing prison population, dwindling resources and dangerous, stressful conditions, doctors working in our prisons are firefighting in terms of inmate healthcare," writes Ailbhe Jordan in a detailed report on prison health care in the Medical Independent.

IPRT's Agnieszka Martynowicz contributed to the article.

Read the article here.

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