Keith Adams

Workshop on ‘Disrupting Prison Policy’

January 16, 2024

The failures of the prison system in dealing justly with offenders was in sharp focus at a one-day workshop organised by JCFJ.

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Rehabilitation: An Act of Hope

April 25, 2023

"How did a Presbyterian from Ballymena, the Bible Belt of Northern Ireland, end up in a private audience with the Pope?" Read the latest 'Working Notes' for the answer.

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Prisoner’s death preventable

January 31, 2023

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice have raised concerns about the death of a man following his attempted suicide in Cork Prison.

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Avoidable death of woman in custody

November 14, 2022

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice says the tragic death in the Dóchas Centre should be a watershed moment for female imprisonment.

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JCFJ ‘alarmed’ at Minister’s comments

September 13, 2022

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice says the government's prison service agenda is detrimental to prisoners' welfare.

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Justice and the Irish State

February 9, 2022

An essay on prison reform is "One of the most striking pieces of analysis ever offered in 'Working Notes."

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‘Bring back the eviction ban’

January 7, 2022

A staggering 359 children have been made homeless in the last three months alone. Peter McVerry SJ calls for reinstatement of eviction ban.

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 Reduce prison numbers, end punitive regime

November 24, 2020

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has been responding to a European report critical of the handling of mentally ill prisoners in Irish prisons

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Deep ecological conversion needed in these crisis times

November 11, 2020

October's Working Notes sounds the alarm about accelerating ecological breakdown and other threats to healthy human existence brought into focus by the pandemic

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Concerns about Dóchas centre

September 25, 2020

The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice have expressed alarm at reports of the environment for female prisoners in the Dóchas centre, Mountjoy

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