Saoirse Brady joined Cormac O'Keeffe on the Pat Kenny Show to discuss some of the reasons why the prison population continues to grow.
22nd July 2025
Irish prisons are considering housing inmates in public spaces. This comes as prisons across the country are at maximum capacity and experiencing a “crisis level of overcrowding”. Saoirse Brady, Executive Director with the Irish Penal Reform Trust and Cormac O’Keeffe, Security Correspondent at the Irish Examiner discuss the matter.
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