Date: Tuesday 23 July 2013
Time: 6pm
Location: King’s Inns, Henrietta Street, Dublin 1
The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) is delighted to announce that our 2013 Annual Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Sharon Shalev on the topic of: "Solitary confinement: necessity, convenience or inhumanity?" . Judge Gerard Hogan of the Irish High Court will chair the event, and leading social justice campaigner Fr. Peter McVerry will respond to the lecture, reflecting on his experience in seeing the effects of prolonged isolation on prisoners within Irish prisons.
Dr Sharon Shalev is a Fellow of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Associate/Fellow at the Centre for Criminology at Oxford University, and an Associate of the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS). She has been researching the use of solitary confinement for almost two decades, and has written extensively on the subject. IPRT has invited Dr Shalev to Dublin in order to draw attention to serious rights issues and concerns surrounding the detention of prisoners in Ireland on restricted regimes, including 23 hour lock up, for significant periods of time.
IPRT Annual Lecture is sponsored by KOD Lyons.
A wine reception will follow the event, kindly sponsored by the Bar Council. Attendance at the lecture is free but numbers are limited. To reserve your place, please contact Mary Gaffney at 01-8741400 or email: info@iprt.ie or register online here.
The Annual Lecture is preceded by the IPRT AGM for 2013 at 3.30pm. All members are very welcome to attend.