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Care and Rehabilitation of Prisoners
Prisoner care and rehabilitation is a core aim of the Irish Prison Service. In keeping with its mission statement, the Service endeavours to achieve a balanced approach in the effective performance of its care and custody functions. It seeks to manage sentences in a way which encourages and supports prisoners in their efforts to live-law abiding and purposeful lives on release.
Prisoner care and rehabilitation involves significant multi-dimensional input by a diverse range of general and specialist services provided both by the Irish Prison Service and in-reaching statutory and non-statutory services. The Probation Service is a significant partner in this respect.
Among the various services that are the responsibility of the Irish Prison Service are the education, library, work and training, psychology and spiritual services. These services are important in addressing missed educational and vocational opportunities, offending behaviour, drug and alcohol addiction and poor self management so that prisoners can achieve positive personal development in prison and successful re-integration and resettlement in the community. The care function also involves provision of satisfactory living conditions as regards accommodation, catering, laundry, hygiene and daily regime as well as maintenance of links with the community and measures to facilitate re-integration.
The Irish Prison Service has adopted Integrated Sentence Management (ISM) as a strategy to ensure co-ordination of interactions with prisoners based on agreed individual sentence plans.
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