In recent years, PIPS has provided a comprehensive analysis of progress over a 12-month period towards meeting human rights and best practice in Ireland’s penal system. Unlike previous years, PIPS 2021 performs an overarching review of the overall progress across the lifetime of the project against the standards set in the first edition of PIPS in 2017.
The overall purpose of the PIPS project has been to promote and assess progress across a broad range of issues in Ireland’s penal system, guided by a set of 35 standards. However, accessing data has often been challenging. The pandemic period has further highlighted gaps in transparency across our penal and criminal justice system.
To this end, PIPS 2021 carries out its review under one unified theme: The Need for Transparency in the Penal System.
Contributors at the launch event will include: Sinéad Gibney, Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC); Professor Ben Crewe, University of Cambridge; Prof Ian O’Donnell, UCD; Caron McCaffrey, Director General of the Irish Prison Service; and Mark Wilson, Director of the Probation Service. Sarahjane McCreery, IPRT Senior Policy and Research Officer, will introduce the report findings. The launch will be chaired by Dr Seamus Taylor, IPRT Chairperson.
Day & Time: Monday 7th February 2022, 11am – 1pm
Location: Virtual, via Zoom
Register: To register to attend this event please click here or contact info@iprt.ie
The PIPS project is made possible through the continued support of our donor-advised family fund and the Community Foundation for Ireland.