Prison Reports
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.
Census of Restricted Regime Prisoners October 2018
20th February 2019
The Irish Prison Service Statistics Office has published the Census of Restricted Regimes for October 2019.
Census of Cell Occupancy and In-Cell Sanitation October 2018
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.
Publication of the Sixth Report of the Implementation Oversight Group
10th September 2018
The Sixth Report of the Implementation Oversight Group has been published by the Department of Justice and Equality.
Census of Cell Occupancy and In-cell Sanitation July 2018
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.
Census of Restricted Regime Prisoners July 2018
10th August 2018
The Irish Prison Service Statistics Office has published its Census of Restricted Regimes for July 2018.
Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2017
25th June 2018
Minister Flanagan publishes the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2017.
Probation Service Annual Report 2017
25th June 2018
Minister Flanagan has published the Probation Service Annual Report 2017.
IPS Examination of the Sentence Management of people serving Life Sentences
8th May 2018
A report examining the sentence management of life-sentenced prisoners has been published by the Irish Prison Service.
Delay in Publication of Prison Census Reports
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.
Census of Restricted Regime Prisoners January & April 2018
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.
