Prison Oversight: Improving Rights in Europe (POIRE)

Materials to Support Awaress Amongst People in Prison of the CPT

Prison Oversight: Improving Rights in Europe (POIRE) is a project funded by the European Research Council and led by PI Prof. Mary Rogan. Working with Dr. Niamh Wade and Dr. Sophie van der Valk, as well as colleagues in Romania, Spain and Belgium, this research project has created a series of materials aimed at supporting people in prison to become more aware of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the CPT), its work and its remit. These are available in English, Romanian, and Flemish at present and include a briefing paper, slides for use on in-prison TV channels, and a workshop.

The project has made these materials freely available for use :

Documents created by Dr. Niamh Wade, Dr. Sophie van der Valk, and Dr. Mary

The POIRE project has received funding under the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101069413.
The PRILA project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 679362.

Contact POIRE

If you have any questions about the project, or wish to participate, please contact the POIRE Principal Investigator at mary.rogan@tcd.ie.

Publications

• Niamh Wade, Sophie van der Valk and Mary Rogan along with people in prison in Romania, Spain, Ireland and Belgium, (2025), 'What is the CPT? An in-prison TV channel presentation' [pdf]Impact Case Study, 2025, TARA - Full Text
• Eva Aizpurua; Sophie van der Valk; Mary Rogan; Francisco Caravaca-Sánchez, Common knowledge? Awareness of national and international oversight bodies among incarcerated individuals in Spain, European Journal of Criminology, 2025, p24Journal Article, 2025, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• Prison Monitoring its successes and pitfalls in, editor(s)Laurrari, Elena Daems, Tom , Handbook on European Penology, Routledge, 2025, pp1-28 , [Laurrari, Elena, and Rogan, Mary]Book Chapter, 2025
• Who complains in prison and who doesn't, and why? A view from Germany in, editor(s)Laurrari, Elena Daems, Tom , Just Prisons, Routledge, 2025, pp1 - 30 , [Morgenstern, Christine; Rogan, Mary]Book Chapter, 2025
• Le système pénitentiaire irlandais, Céré Jean-Paul, World Prisons, 2024, pp32 , [Mary Rogan]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2024, TARA - Full Text