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Regimes In Irish Prisons: ‘Inhumane’ And ‘Degrading’: An Analysis And The Outline Of A Solution, Kevin Warner
Regimes In Irish Prisons: ‘Inhumane’ And ‘Degrading’: An Analysis And The Outline Of A Solution, Kevin Warner
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
Recent reports depict regimes in Irish prisons as ‘inhumane’, and as ‘increasingly oppressive and destructive’. This deterioration in conditions is part of a larger ‘punitive turn’ that can be identified in the Irish prison system since the late 1990s, and that is also evident in a huge increase in the scale of incarceration and much greater demonisation of those held in prison. In 1985, the Whitaker Report set standards for ‘basic living conditions’ in prisons. The Whitaker standards mirror similar ones in the European Prison Rules. For example, both stipulate that an imprisoned person should normally have a single cell. …
Book Review: Hourigan, N. (Ed.) (2011). Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion And Change, Liam Leonard
Book Review: Hourigan, N. (Ed.) (2011). Understanding Limerick: Social Exclusion And Change, Liam Leonard
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
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Learning For Liberation, Teaching For Transformation: Can Education In Prison Prepare Prisoners For Active Citizenship?, Anne Costelloe
Learning For Liberation, Teaching For Transformation: Can Education In Prison Prepare Prisoners For Active Citizenship?, Anne Costelloe
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
The idea that education can imbue the learner with the skills, values and attitudes necessary for active citizenship has come to permeate mainstream educational discourse. This paper examines the relevance of that discourse for prison education and considers what it may have to offer the prison learner? It suggests that it has much to offer because 'citizenship' is itself a learning process that instils developmental and transformative change. Thus, prison educators should not only think of learning as a key dimension of citizenship but citizenship as a key dimension of learning. Accordingly, 'civic competency' should be seen to be just …
Book Review: O’Sullivan, E. & O’Donnell, E. (2012). Coercive Confinement In Ireland. Patients, Prisoners And Penitents, Mary Rogan
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
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