Irish Penal Abolition Network Podcast

On this week’s episode, we discuss the relationship between the patriarchy and prisons, and also the experience of women inside the prison walls. 

Paper on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people in prisons: https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/26896/1/IPRT_Out_on_the_Inside_2016.pdf

Robert Cullen leads the Success Stories programme across both custodial and community settings, and also is involved in a number of violence preventative initiatives. He uses his lived experience as a formerly incarcerated person, and his academic knowledge as a soon to be PhD student to develop various research projects. Keith Adams is the penal policy advocate at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. His role involves prison research policy, advocacy and education with school and community groups. Elizabeth Kiely is a member of IPAN and a Professor of Social Policy at University College Cork. Her research in the field of penal policy is concerned with the criminalisation of social policy including poverty, welfare dystopia, the pervasiveness of punitive logics in justice and prisons as necropolitical spaces.

Follow us on Instagram @ipan_eire and check out our website: https://www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/

This week, we’re focusing on the effects of prison on people’s wellbeing both within and beyond the prison walls. In particular, we dispel the lie that we are told - that prison is a place of rehabilitation. Robert Cullen leads the Success Stories programme across both custodial and community settings, and also is involved in a number of violence preventative initiatives. He uses his lived experience as a formerly incarcerated person, and his academic knowledge as a soon-to-be PhD student, to develop various research projects. Keith Adams is the penal policy advocate at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. His role involves prison research, policy, advocacy and education with school and community groups. Follow us on Instagram @ipan_eire and check out our website: https://www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/.

In this episode, we will be explaining how the prison system in Ireland works and what abolitionism and IPAN is. Robert Cullen leads the success stories programme across both custodial and community settings, and also is involved in a number of violence preventative initiatives. He uses his lived experience as a formerly incarcerated person and his academic knowledge as a soon to be PhD student to develop various research projects. Keith Adams is the penal policy advocate at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. His role involves prison research policy, advocacy and education with school and community groups.  Follow us on instagram @ipan_eire and check out our website: https://www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/.