Being in prison makes some jailbirds sad. Aw.

What a snowflake society. These people broke the law of the land, some without even a shred of regret for their actions and who would offend again should they be let out. Who cares for their feelings.

It has to be done. Why put screws and non-violent prisoners at risk just to protect some nutters feelings? Not particularly happy that a crowd like the IPRT may have a direct input into how our prisons are run when the victims of crime get next to none.

Everyone should be in confinement only let out to clean parks, rivers and the streets and straight back after a day’s work

Some nutters just have to be kept separate from everyone

All very well etc. but the same level of concern must be shown for the victims of crime. In many cases their lives have been ruined by robbery and or violence resulting in stress, anxiety and mental health issues. Cent for cent the same amount should be spent on helping the victims of these convicted criminals.

I’ve worked in the solitary confinement wing in Mountjoy, they’re grand where they are.

More concern for the welfare of criminals than law abiding citizens in this country.

I think every prisoner should be on 24 hour lock up and the simple way to avoid it is do not brake the law. What about the human rights of the victims.

What seems to be missing from this report is that the majority of prisoners currently on a protected regime as it’s called are actually there because THEY sought to be placed on protection. There are a lot of these applications for laziness reasons. In a large remand prison in Dublin for example all regular regime prisoners are brought to the yard at 10am, the only ones whom don’t get disturbed from their bed are protection prisoners. There only a very small amount of prisoners in solitary confinement on the direction of the prison authorities due to serious breaches of discipline. Most prisoners on a extra security division tend to mix with a few others in most cases so in reality there’s probably only a lot less than 1% of the prison population in solitary confinement but for a REASON.

all prisoners should be locked in their cell 23hrs a day and let out for one hour to exercise and shower thats it will teach em not to break the law

Jails should be closed all serious crime death penalty every thing else a find for said amount of months/years taken from your dole or salary with community service for the same amount of months/years.

The IPRT should send their staff in to work through their alternative suggestions, directly with the prisoners. See how they get on. It would be a great learning curve for them (IPRT staff) and a great piece of research to call upon in the future.

if your in solitary your in an empty room by yourself as punishment?? or your playing playstation and chilling out ? which is here in Ireland

The mind boggles at the stupidity of this report by people that claim to represent convicts. There are very valid reasons why a convict may be placed on a restricted regime. Lets take one example. Convict “A” is a paranoid schizophrenic with violent psychotic episodes and is waiting for a bed in the Central Mental Hospital. Now convict “A” has a history of violence against both staff and other convicts. If this report was to be enacted as written Prison staff would be forced to allow Convict “A” have contact with other convicts, and as such place those others and Staff in extreme danger of a violent assault.

Or how about convict “B” who seeks Protection but refuses to inform Prison Staff as to whom they require protection from (individual, gang, etc). As The Prison Service has a duty of care to ensure a convicts safety as best as possible, they are left with no other choice but to place Convict “B” on “Protection All Others” status. This is far from ideal from the Prison’s point of view as Convict “B” ties up resources that could be used much more efficiently elsewhere. But yet this report is critical of the Prison Service’s legal obligation to keep each and every inmate in custody as safe as possible.

Violence in Prisons. What does this report think happens when society incarcerates multiples of violent individuals in one small area? Are the authors of this report either willfully ignoring or are simply ignorant the reasons that many of these convicts are imprisoned? Most of those convicted of violent crime are (not to put too fine a point on it) “Predators”. They prey on the weak and vulnerable, and in prison where the majority those are themselves Predators, struggles for dominance take place. This is the nature of the beast. And Prison Staff have a hard enough time trying to keep it to a minimum, let alone stop it altogether.

If I ever ended up in prison I’d be hoping for solitary.

by who, Prisoners? I bet they want a playstation room instead.

Yes I agree it makes them more aggressive

Hmm, two words for this: Warren Dumbrell. And I’ll add to that Leroy Dumbrell, Leon Wright. Google them. Imagine sharing a cell with either of these? Imagine being a prison warder having to manage/deal with these chaps? The authors of the above report don’t seem to have much empathy for the warders. Some of them should perhaps volunteer to share a cell with Warren Dumbrell for a week. We’ll see what their opinions are of solitary confinement afterwards.

Ah bless the poor pets get them all extra cushions as well while yer out yeah. This is what’s wrong with letting that shower of dopes in the door called amnesty. Turning the place inside out, they have us voting and fighting about killing children and at the same time making the life of a murderer easier. You couldn’t make it up.

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