Reports on Irish prisons are gathered in this section, along with prison standards and other relevant reports.
Inspection reports of the Children Detention Schools, which are carried out by HIQA, are available in the youth justice section.
For reports on Irish prisons carried out by international monitoring bodies (CPT, UN CAT, etc.) please see Human Rights reports.
13th December 2024
The Irish Prison Service has published the Irish Prison Service (IPS) Annual Report 2023.
24th October 2024
The Minister for Justice Helen McEntee published the Probation Service Annual Report 2023 on 24 October 2024.
14th October 2024
The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) welcomes the publication of the Parole Board's Annual Report 2023 which was published on the afternoon of Friday 11 October 2024. This is the second Annual Report the Board has published since becoming a statutory body and the first that includes a full year of decision making on applications.
13th September 2024
The Irish Prison Service has published Self-harm in Irish Prisons – Fourth report from the Self-Harm Assessment and Data Analysis (SADA) Project (2020-2021). The report includes data on recorded episodes of self-harm that occurred in prison during the years 2020 and 2021.
30th August 2024
Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) responds to the publication by the Department of Justice of the 2022 Annual Reports from the Visiting Committees for each of Ireland’s prisons.
23rd July 2024
The Office of the Inspector of Prisons’ (OIP) investigation report into the death of Mr K 2024 in Cork Prison on 14 March 2024 was published by the Department of Justice on 19 July 2024.
21st February 2024
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has published an inspection report on Oberstown Children Detention Campus for an inspection that took place across three days between 12 and 14 September 2023.
26th January 2024
On 26 January 2024, an Office of the Inspector of Prisons Death in Custody Investigation Report was published by the Department of Justice and Equality. The report is related to a death that occurred on 2 October 2021 while the individual (Mr. G, 2021) was in custody at Cork Prison.
23rd October 2023
IPRT welcome the publication of the July 2023 Prison Population Census reports on restricted regimes and cell occupancy and in-cell sanitation , which were published by the Irish Prison Service in...
19th October 2023
MEDIA RELEASE: The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) is today calling for increased use of community-based alternatives to prison, a reversal of plans to increase prison spaces, and amendments to existing legislation to ensure that imprisonment is a sanction of last resort. These calls come in response to yesterday’s (18 October 2023) publication of the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2022 and today’s (19 October 2023) publication of The Probation Service Annual Report 2022 by the Minister for Justice.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.