Prison Law

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

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Prison Law has become an essential text for practitioners, students and researchers seeking authoritative and comprehensive guidance on prison law matters, ranging from questions about prison conditions, procedural fairness in disciplinary hearings, decisions on transfers and temporary release, as well as parole. The book examines statutes governing prisons, as well as the developing corpus of judgments from Ireland, and comparative material from the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, England and Wales, the USA and Canada.

The Second Edition analyses:

- Recent judgments from the Irish courts, including
Simpson v Governor of Mountjoy Prison on prison conditions;
Kenny v Governor of Portlaoise Prison and Doolan v Governor of Arbour Hill Prison;
Delacey v Governor of Wheatfield Prison on procedural fairness in disciplinary hearings;
McD v Governor of X Prison on hunger strikes and complaints procedures;
- Developments in the European Court of Human Rights;
- New statutory instruments concerning human contact, visits and exercise;
- The critical changes to release procedures for certain groups introduced by the Parole Act 2019 and the requirements this new process involves;
- New international prison law instruments, including the revised European Prison Rules (2020) and new UN Standard Minimum Rules (the Mandela Rules) (2015);
- Reports of the significantly developed Office of the Inspector of Prisons and their relevance for practitioners;
- Recent reports of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the issues raised therein and their relevance to practitioners; and
- Research on how people in prison and prison staff experience making complaints and the protection of their rights.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professionals Irish Criminal Law online service.

Author Bio

Mary Rogan is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and a Fellow of Trinity College. She is the Principal Investigator of two projects funded by the European Research Council examining prison oversight. Her latest book (2023) is a co-edited collection on pre-trial detention in Europe, published by Routledge. Mary is qualified as a barrister and is a member of Lincolns Inn, London. Mary was the first woman to be President of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation, an organisation with roots stretching back over 150 years, and is currently its Secretary General. She is a former Chairperson of the Irish Penal Reform Trust.