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- Michelle Hennessy is the editor of The Economist’s Graphic Detail section, which visualises the world’s most significant stories through charts and maps. She joined The Economist in 2021 as a newsdesk editor, where she helped manage the newspaper’s homepage, app, and Espresso daily news briefing.
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- Travellers Overrepresented in Prison
- Poor Scores in Pre-Sentencing Reports
- Unfair Treatment in Prison
- Use of Restricted Regimes
- Severe Impact on Children
- ‘Life Put on Hold’
- Concern Over Mental Health Services
- Ongoing Waiting Lists For Counselling Services
- ‘We Are Human Beings’
This is far from a unique experience for Travellers who generally account for around 10% of the male prisoner population and as much as 22% of the female prison population, though those proportions fluctuate. According to a one-day snapshot provided by the Irish Prison Service to researchers behind the Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice (ITAJ) rep...
Another issue facing Travellers convicted of a crime, according to Costello, is that they are more likely to receive a poor score in the Probation Service’s pre-sentencing risk assessment because of the criteria it considers. A pre-sanction report assesses an offender to see whether they are suitable for a non-custodial sentence. The report describ...
Once in prison, Travellers have reported unfair treatment . Kathleen Wilde told Noteworthy that she felt she was “being treated a lot differently”. She said that other inmates bullied her, would push into her and “didn’t want to be around” because of who she was. Photo - Tetra Images Photo - Tetra Images Costello said that she is still hearing exam...
Because Wilde didn’t feel comfortable around other inmates due to their harsh treatment of her, she was place on a protection regime. Prisoners are generally placed on this type of regime because they are considered to be at risk due to factors such as feuds, drug debts or evidence they gave against another prisoner. Anne Costello said there is a p...
The impact of their imprisonment stretches outside the prison walls, particularly when it comes to children and women in the community. Maria Joyce from the National Traveller Women’s Forum, said the consequences for children can be particularly severe if their mother goes to prison. “Women in general are often the primary carers, but we know from ...
One woman, Pamela*, who spoke to Noteworthysaid her partner, now in his 40s, has been in and out of prison since he was 14. She explained that several member of his family had been involved in criminality when he was growing up. The couple have a son together and had a baby girl who died a few days after she was born. Pamela said they tried for mor...
Both women said one of their main concerns about their family members in prison related to their mental health and access to vital supports, including counselling and help with their addiction issues, both in and out of prison. Pamela said her partner had been trying for a number of weeks before his most recent offence to access mental health treat...
Maria Joyce said there are similar trends with Traveller women in prison when it comes to the prevalence of mental health issues. “There’s a revolving door system for some women, they’re the most vulnerable of Traveller women and they end up trapped in a cycle of being released and going back in,” she said. “Some women who are already on depression...
Photo - Martin Beanz Warde Photo - Martin Beanz Warde When it comes to Travellers and the prison system, it is clear that there are many ongoing problems to be addressed. As Sinéad Gibney, chief commissioner for the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission wrote in the forward of the Irish Travellers’ Access to Justice (ITAJ) report earlier this ...
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