Number of non-nationals in Irish jails has more than doubled in past five years - Irish Mail on Sunday
4th January 2026
In the Irish Mail on Sunday, IPRT Executive Director Saoirse Brady challenged political narratives linking migration to prison overcrowding, warning against the “othering” of immigrants and stating that deportation would not solve capacity pressures. She criticised efforts to undermine the European Convention on Human Rights, highlighted evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing, and reiterated IPRT’s call for human-rights-led penal reform and better data rather than punitive migration measures.
Read the article here.
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