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4th August 2019
Highlights in this edition include: Save the Date - IPRT AGM (Sept) and PIPS 2019 (Oct); Passage of Parole Bill 2016; and IPRT presents to Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Spent Convictions.
9th April 2019
Highlights in this edition include: Appointment of new IPRT Executive Director; IPRT 'Care and Justice' Report Launch; Criminal Justice (Rehabilitative Periods) Bill 2018 [PMB]; and Publication of the 2017 Prison Visiting Committee Annual Reports.
11th January 2019
Highlights in this edition include: the announcement of the departure of IPRT Executive Director; report launch save the date; and a featured event.
14th December 2018
Highlights in this edition include: Christmas Wishes; 2018 Year in Review; and Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017.
17th October 2018
Highlights in this edition include: Progressing inside? PIPS 2018; IPRT Annual Review 2017-2018; Prison Law Seminar #ratifyOPCAT; and Irish penal reform developments.
10th August 2018
Highlights in this edition include: IPRT 2018 AGM & Members’ Event; #ratifyOPCAT update; ‘Progress in the Penal System’ 2018 launch information; Publication of the 2017 Annual Reports of the Irish Prison Service; and IPRT 'Making the News'.
12th June 2018
Highlights in this edition include: Addressing the Over-Representation of Children in Care in the Criminal Justice System; Consultation on the update of 'Your Rights as a Prisoner' Booklet; IPRT Seminar with the Office of the Press Ombudsman; Report on Penal Reform and Sentencing; IPRT Submissions; and more.
10th April 2018
Highlights in this edition include: Addressing the Over-Representation of Children in Care in the Criminal Justice System; Penal Reform Updates; IPRT Making the News, and more.
27th February 2018
Highlights in this edition include: Launch of 'Behind the Door': Solitary Confinement in the Irish Penal System; Breaking the Care to Prison Pipeline; Submissions to Law Reform Commission and The Probation Service Strategic Plan; Joint Committee on Education and Skills 'Education Inequality and Disadvantage' and more.
20th December 2017
Highlights in this edition include: Season's Greetings from IPRT; IPRT Annual Review 2016-2017; Progress in the Penal System (PIPS); OPCAT Campaign; Spent Convictions Campaign; Update and Save the Date Solitary Confinement Project.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.