Planned electronic tagging of prisoners faces fresh setback - Irish Independent

18th March 2026

This article highlights delays in the rollout of electronic tagging for prisoners, with no compliant tender submissions received despite extended deadlines. IPRT has warned that the ongoing overcrowding in Irish prisons — now operating at 125% capacity with hundreds sleeping on floors — makes alternatives to incarceration increasingly urgent. Executive Director Saoirse Brady described conditions as “overwhelmed, overstretched and inhumane” and stressed that imprisonment should remain a last resort, with community-based sanctions used for less serious offences.

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