Thought provoking day yesterday at the first of many meetings to develop a Prison & Penal Abolition network here in Ireland—grateful for a space to think about what we can build, grow, & repair when we come together to imagine a more just collective future 🌱 Interested? Join us!

Highlight of the weekend (and now my entire personality) was getting to meet Sing and Step with Padraig!!!!! We sang, we stepped, and we lilted to me espresso. 10/10 exceeded expectations.

There are worse places to park myself for the weekend and write a literature review 🌿🌊🌞✍️☕️📖

So glad to have been able to attend this workshop today and I look forward to what we can achieve moving forward! Thank you to those involved in organising today.
ISS21 Katharina Swirak Kathleen White Keith Adams Abolitionist Futures RuariSantiagoMcBride

The real #StormKathleen is me multiple cups of coffee and two monster energy drinks deep trying to meet a writing deadline this weekend 🫨🤪✍️📖📝

Love this! Amazing group all doing amazing work! Together you are on 🔥 #buildhousesnotprisons Katharina Swirak Teresa Degenhardt Dr Gillian McNaull Kathleen White Spéire Nua Don Flynn ISS21 for our #collectivesocialfutures

Fantastic ACJRD_IE lecture by maggie oneill #CeaseFireNow exploring women and the criminal justice system - with an emphasis on the need for a participatory, imaginative criminology that uses creative methods to meet people where they are at to build our collective social future together.

Reunited with Lauren VZE for our impromptu DIY prison education writing retreat ✨🙌✍️💫

Many of those working with prison populations, eg prison chaplains, have been calling for a different model of restorative rather than retributive justice for many years. Recognising that causes of criminality are rooted in societal & poverty issues. messenger.ie/product/unhear…

While discussions in our January prison workshop were not recorded, Kathleen White generated a very helpful workshop report capturing questions, observations and responses.
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Love this!!! #buildhomesnotprisons Katharina Swirak James Windle Kathleen White Dr Gillian McNaull ACJRD_IE Spéire Nua ISS21 #CollectiveSocialFutures

So great to see - thanks to International Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program for inspiration and Nicola Carr for connecting Kathleen White @maggieoneill Edel Cunningham Lorraine Higgins James Leonard

May we never forget how students protesting genocide generated more outrage than the actual genocide itself - w/ universities unleashing police violence on students to uphold the militant, capitalistic status quo that allows genocide to happen with US tax dollars & govt support

Great event organised by Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice Keith Adams on Disrupting Prison Policy with brilliant contributions from Shona Minson David Gordon Scott Anna Schiele Kathleen White

Hear hear- and as just discussed Professor Ursula Kilkelly Dr Sharon Lambert Samantha Dockray and also FYI Keith Adams Kathleen White Dr Gillian McNaull

Investment in prison expansion, instead of communities, will make this assumed “growing population” a self fulfilling prophecy. The reasons people end up in prisons are related to inadequate social supports. Pouring more funding into prison expansion will never be the solution.

Congratulations Dr Lucy Baldwin and colleagues an important book for us all UCC Sociology & Criminology ACJRD_IE Gerry McNally Katharina Swirak Kathleen White Dr Gillian McNaull Cork Alliance Centre Orla Lynch Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 Sharon Grace Prof Tammi Walker Professor Azrini Wahidin FASS Head of SSPS USyD

Fantastic!!! This will help us so much in our collaborative writing with punishment impacted persons - Kathleen White Dr Gillian McNaull Lorraine Higgins James Leonard maggie oneill #CeaseFireNow Pat Sheedy Shauna Gilligan dr áine mangaoang dr lucy cathcart frödén Daniel Sexton

It was a privilege to attend the graduation of students of the Inside Out program in Cork Prison. Fantastic presentations from students sharing their experiences of shared learning. Well done all UCC Sociology & Criminology Katharina Swirak James Windle Kathleen White James G.R. Cronin