Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Prisons, Penal Policy and Sentencing: Irish Penal Reform Trust

9:00 am

Ms Michelle Martyn:

I wish to make an additional point about the media. It involves all of us trying to work together to educate both the media and the general public about crime and prison. In Sweden, for example, the newspapers have subscription rates so the issue with many tabloids does not happen there like that. In the case of prisoners, the media might say it is a public interest story when perhaps the prisoner is going to university after release, and then that upsets the rehabilitation goals. I do not know what the solution is but everybody must work together to try to address it. This issue is wider than just the prison.

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