Irish Penal Abolition Network Podcast

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The Irish Penal Abolition Network (IPAN) is an advocacy group formed in 2024 by activists, academics, community members, and people with lived experience of the prison system. We promote prison abolition as an alternative to carceral systems, aiming to reduce prison populations and prison expansion and invest instead in communities. The goal of this podcast is to provide education and information about the Irish prison service through an Irish abolitionist lens, and ultimately, we want to encourage change and for you, the listener, to act.

Episodes

  1. Nov 2

    Episode 4: Irish Abolitionist Futures and Stop Cork Prison Expansion

    This week, we discuss how the prison system interacts with other systems of harm perpetuated by the state, and then turn our focus to the incredible work being done by those at Stop Cork Prison Expansion. Robert Cullen leads the Success Stories programme across both custodial and community settings, and also is involved in a number of violence preventative initiatives. He uses his lived experience as a formerly incarcerated person, and his academic knowledge as a soon to be PhD student to develop various research projects. Keith Adams is the penal policy advocate at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. His role involves prison research policy, advocacy and education with school and community groups. Benita Wolf is a criminologidt and currently a PhD student in criminology and law. She is also part of the Stop Cork Prison Expanion community. Contact the group on Instagram @stopcorkprisonexpansion or email stopcorkprisonexpanion@protonmail.com. Follow IPAN on Instagram @ipan_eire and check out our website: https://www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/

  2. Oct 18

    Episode 3: Patriarchy and Prisons

    On this week’s episode, we discuss the relationship between the patriarchy and prisons, and also the experience of women inside the prison walls.  Paper on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people in prisons: https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/26896/1/IPRT_Out_on_the_Inside_2016.pdf Robert Cullen leads the Success Stories programme across both custodial and community settings, and also is involved in a number of violence preventative initiatives. He uses his lived experience as a formerly incarcerated person, and his academic knowledge as a soon to be PhD student to develop various research projects. Keith Adams is the penal policy advocate at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. His role involves prison research policy, advocacy and education with school and community groups. Elizabeth Kiely is a member of IPAN and a Professor of Social Policy at University College Cork. Her research in the field of penal policy is concerned with the criminalisation of social policy including poverty, welfare dystopia, the pervasiveness of punitive logics in justice and prisons as necropolitical spaces. Follow us on Instagram @ipan_eire and check out our website: https://www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/

  3. Sep 6

    Episode 2: The myth of prison as a place of rehabilitation

    This week, we’re focusing on the effects of prison on people’s wellbeing both within and beyond the prison walls. In particular, we dispel the lie that we are told - that prison is a place of rehabilitation. Robert Cullen leads the Success Stories programme across both custodial and community settings, and also is involved in a number of violence preventative initiatives. He uses his lived experience as a formerly incarcerated person, and his academic knowledge as a soon-to-be PhD student, to develop various research projects. Keith Adams is the penal policy advocate at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. His role involves prison research, policy, advocacy and education with school and community groups. Follow us on Instagram @ipan_eire and check out our website: https://www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/.

  4. Aug 30

    Episode 1: What is Irish abolitionism?

    In this episode, we will be explaining how the prison system in Ireland works and what abolitionism and IPAN is. Robert Cullen leads the success stories programme across both custodial and community settings, and also is involved in a number of violence preventative initiatives. He uses his lived experience as a formerly incarcerated person and his academic knowledge as a soon to be PhD student to develop various research projects. Keith Adams is the penal policy advocate at the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Dublin. His role involves prison research policy, advocacy and education with school and community groups.  Follow us on instagram @ipan_eire and check out our website: https://www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/.

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The Irish Penal Abolition Network (IPAN) is an advocacy group formed in 2024 by activists, academics, community members, and people with lived experience of the prison system. We promote prison abolition as an alternative to carceral systems, aiming to reduce prison populations and prison expansion and invest instead in communities. The goal of this podcast is to provide education and information about the Irish prison service through an Irish abolitionist lens, and ultimately, we want to encourage change and for you, the listener, to act.

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