2012 Conference Report: Exit from Custody
Claire Loftus, DPP, launched the ACJRD 15th Annual Conference Report: "Exit from Custody: Through-care, Resettlement and Related Issues" at The Green Street Courthouse on 28 February, 2013.
The report includes the following plenary papers:
“Prisoner resettlement – Broadening the responsibility”
Presenter: Michael Donnellan, Director General of the Irish Prison Service
Keywords: Prison; Custody; Criminal Justice System; Probation; Resettlement; Irish Prison Service.
“Resettlement issues and the Parole Board”
Presenter: John Costello, Chairman of the Parole Board
Keywords: Parole Board; Temporary Release; Resettlement; Prison; Crime; Sex Offenders; Prison sentences.
“Prisons and Probation in partnership: Creating conditions for change”.
Presenter: Vivian Geiran, Director, The Probation Service
Keywords: Probation; Programmes; Prisoners; Prisons; Partnership programmes.
“The role of incarceration in prolonging young people's homelessness”
Presenters: Dr. Mary-Louise Corr, Edinburgh Napier University (and Dr. Paula Mayock, Trinity College Dublin)
Keywords: Young People; Prison; Homeless; Offenders; Offending.
The report includes the following workshop summaries:
“Seeking a balance between Community Safety and Reintegration: The Canadian experience of release from custody”
Presenter: Prof. Denis Bracken, Professor of Social Work, University of Manitoba
“Reform of the Law on Remission, Temporary Release and Parole”
Presenters: Liam Herrick, Executive Director & Michelle Martyn, Research and Policy Officer, Irish Penal Reform Trust
“Making Change Happen in the Criminal Justice System”
Presenter: Dr. Michael Maguire, Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
“Shannon Trust Reading Plan – Assisting the ‘Exit’ Strategy”
Presenter: Sam White, Shannon Trust
“Challenges to Reintegration: Ex-Offender Homelessness & Employability”
Presenters: Fr. Charlie Hoey, Care after Prison Project & Bríd O’Brien, Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU)
“Young men returning to the community after a period of imprisonment”
Presenter: Dr. Nicola Hughes
“The Community’s entitlement to know; the offender’s entitlement to privacy – issues for 21st Century News Media”
Presenter: Dr. Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Editor, The Irish Times
“Electronic Monitoring and Release from Prison – Compulsory and Voluntary Models”
Presenter: Prof Mike Nellis, Emeritus Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Strathclyde