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:
In the progression for reintegration, as much as for rehabilitation, people who are at a stage where a programme should be or would be in place when they are seeking parole, that is now being postponed, sometimes for 18 months and beyond. People will not see that progression until they seek parole. This is what I am being told. This is a problem and another extension as a result of the pandemic. As a result of the pandemic, we felt that we were being extended, and this is an extra extension on top of that. Everything, it seems, is on hold.
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