22nd July 2024
Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) is delighted to be holding our next event, Know Your Rights: Information, Advocacy and Remedies.
At the event, we will bring together a wide variety of service providers, information and advice givers, people with lived experience of the prison system and relevant organisations from across the academic, civil society and statutory sectors. The event aims to examine the current challenges that people in prison face in understanding what their rights are, what remedies are available to them, and how to empower them to assert their rights through self or peer advocacy.
There will be a focus on how support workers can expand their capacity to better advocate for the vindication of these rights, particularly for minority groups and how state institutions can take a more active role in providing rights-based information in an accessible and meaningful way.
While this conference is aimed at service providers supporting people in prison, this event may also be of interest to people with lived experience of imprisonment including family members who wish to advocate on behalf of their loved ones in prison.
We are pleased to announce that James Leonard will moderate the event. James has appeared on the Tommy Tiernan show speaking about his first-hand experience with addiction and the criminal justice system and has since spoken on the Late Late Show, Prime Time and many other TV and radio shows. Over the years James has worked in statutory and third sector organisations in education, youth work, homeless, addiction and community health. Today James is an award-winning podcaster and full-time PhD student at the Dept. of Sociology & Criminology in University College Cork.
The event will comprise three panels. The first panel will focus on Identifying and Accessing Rights and Information. Our second panel will then discuss Remedies and Making Complaints. Our final panel will then address Advocacy in Prison.
Full speaker details will be announced soon.
If you have any additional queries about the event, please email info@iprt.ie.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.