Editors Fiona Donson and Aisling Parkes assembled scholarship from internationally renowned academics and professionals across multiple disciplines who offer keen analysis and insight into the “legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children’s rights lens.” Parental Imprisonment and Children’s Rights is divided into three parts, “dedicated to 1) hearing the voices of children with … Read More
Parenting Under Pressure
Through collaboration with the prison administration in Limerick, Ireland, Bedford Row Family Project has helped to introduce a Parenting Under Pressure programme for mothers imprisoned at Limerick Prison. Originally developed in Australia and implemented internationally, Parenting Under Pressure is devised to help ‘multi-problem high-risk families’ with children between two and eight years of age towards … Read More
Statistics Ireland
Prison population total and prison rate per 100,000 are retrieved from Aebi, M. F., Cocco, E., Molnar, L. & Tiago, M. M., (2022). SPACE I – 2021 – Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics: Prison populations. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, Table 7.Estimated number of children separated from an imprisoned parent: extrapolation based on Champsaur, P., … Read More
Implementation of Irish Prison Services
he Irish Prison Services has moved forward on a major policy decision. To have the Irish Prison Service place a larger emphasis in general, on parenting initiatives for prisoners that have as their aim, the long term well-being of children affected by the imprisonment of their parent. This focus on parenting is a great step … Read More
Life Skills Groups for Women
Bedford Row’s Life Skills program focuses mainly on peer support and mentoring although the programme is facilitated by a psychotherapist and a person trained in counseling, facilitation, addiction studies, and community health and development. There are 2 programmes, the basic Life Skills programme which lasts for 10 weeks and the advanced, which lasts 17 weeks. … Read More
Hospitality Services
In order to make visits as comfortable as possible, Bedford Row Family Project in Ireland, has set up hospitality services at the Limerick prison. These services provide refreshments to those who visit, as well as child-centered activities in the waiting room in order to create a relaxed atmosphere before the children visit their parent. The … Read More