The horrors of the past and the hypocrisies of the present. | Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT)

The horrors of the past and the hypocrisies of the present. Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT): "The children detained in industrial schools were essentially treated as criminals largely because of their poverty. The rightful horror that society is now expressing about this appalling injustice resonates today when it is generally only those who grow up in the most severe poverty that we send to our prisons."