Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 May 2022
212. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if guidelines are given to individual prisons in the drawing up of regime management Plans; and, if so, if those guidelines include reference to the need to ensure effective sentence management with a view to rehabilitation and prevention of re-offending. [22522/22]
View answerI am advised by my officials in the Irish Prison Service that each prison, as a matter of policy, is required to develop its bespoke Regime Management Plan based on guidelines set out by the Irish Prison Service.
The purpose of a Regime Management Plan is to assist in providing the maximum out of cell time, exercise, regime and rehabilitative services to prisoners on any given day and to provide prison managers with a system for managing prisons, prison regimes and prisoner populations in as safe a manner as is practicable given the available staff resources.
A central element to each Regime Management Plan is access to rehabilitative services and a core aim of prison rehabilitation is to assist in the reduction and prevention of reoffending.
The Regime Management Plan Policy, its protocols and procedures are designed to take account of other Irish Prison Service policies which are interlinked with service provision and human rights entitlements including integrated sentence management.
