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.
20th February 2019
The Irish Prison Service Statistics Office has recently published its quarterly statistical analysis cell occupancy and in-cell sanitation for October 2018.
10th September 2018
The Sixth Report of the Implementation Oversight Group has been published by the Department of Justice and Equality.
10th August 2018
The Irish Prison Service Statistics Office has recently published its quarterly statistical analysis cell occupancy and in-cell sanitation for July 2018.
10th August 2018
The Irish Prison Service Statistics Office has published its Census of Restricted Regimes for July 2018.
25th June 2018
Minister Flanagan publishes the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2017.
25th June 2018
Minister Flanagan has published the Probation Service Annual Report 2017.
8th May 2018
A report examining the sentence management of life-sentenced prisoners has been published by the Irish Prison Service.
27th April 2018
An error in the collection of data in Mountjoy Prison resulted in a delay of 3 months in the publication of census reports.
27th April 2018
Both the January and April Censuses of restricted regimes were published today. The delay in publication of the January report is due to errors in the collection of data.
6th April 2018
The Office of the Inspector of Prisons has published a number of reports into deaths occurring in prison custody in 2017.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.