Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Rehabilitative Opportunities within the Prison System: Discussion
Mr. Warren Graham:
For the moment we do not really know where the life sentences are going. There is a little uncertainty, in that all our dates have been postponed. No one I know of has yet seen the new Parole Board, so we genuinely do not know what to expect. The postponement of dates has put on pause a lot of the progression made by some lifers, particularly those looking to get to open centres or those only arriving in open centres. I feel we are at a point at which a number of us have paused progression and we want to keep going but the Parole Board is not engaging, the Minister is now excluded and the Prison Service has yet to engage, so at present, we do not know where we are at.
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