Formed in 2024, the Irish Penal Abolition Network (IPAN) is a group of activists, community members, academics, and those with lived experience of the justice system trying to promote abolition as a pragmatic approach to the carceral systems that continue to prove themselves as failed project.

IPAN members are actively nurturing community by tending safe spaces where prison abolition and other radical ideas can flourish. Over time it is hoped these conversations will take place in diverse localities, beyond the confines of academic space, as IPAN continues to grow.

We hope that you will join us!