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# prison visits

Yesterday
1st December 2023
The Explainer x Noteworthy: Are kids being locked out from jailed parents?
Investigative reporter Alice Chambers and former prison governor John Lonergan tell Susan Daly about how some children are struggling to get access to their loved ones in prison.
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26th November 2023 - 2nd December 2023
‘A long way from normal’: Families say visits to prison still restricted post-pandemic
A report by
Alice Chambers
Some children only get to see their parent in-person once a month and experts are concerned that video calls are replacing visits.
Investigation by Noteworthy finds the number of children visiting prison is 75% of what it was in 2019
Less than a third of prisoners received in-person visits on weeks where data was provided in 2023
Mother-of-two: “I want my kids to know who their father is”
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Wed 12:05 AM
Last year
2022
Opinion: Children with parents in prison are silently serving sentences of their own this Christmas
At Christmas time, children have extremely limited access to their parents in prison, writes Saoirse Brady of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.
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Dec 23rd 2022, 12:29 PM
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Prison visits to resume across two phases
The Irish Prison Service suspended visits in March because of the pandemic.
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Jun 23rd 2020, 10:58 PM
This TD thinks new prison visiting rules are "incredibly sinister"
The Irish Prison Service isn’t quite sure what he’s on about though…
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Apr 9th 2015, 6:10 AM