When it hits you, it hits you hard and takes all your breath away. You tell yourself…
Continue reading No one is left behind Personal thoughts on how to manage the COVID crisis in prison…Category: Prison management
Espírito Santo: a systems transformation of the state Penitentiary system
// Interview: Luiz Carlos Cruz Secretary of State for Justice, Espírito Santo, Brazil JT: The Brazilian…
Continue reading Espírito Santo: a systems transformation of the state Penitentiary systemModernising and strenghtening the capacity of the federal and state level penitentiary systems
// Interview: Fabiano Bordignon General Director of the National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN) Brazil * JT: The…
Continue reading Modernising and strenghtening the capacity of the federal and state level penitentiary systemsAPAC: Prisons without guards, police, weapons, violence, corruption, drugs and discrimination
// Interview: Valdeci Ferreira Executive Director of the Brazilian Fraternity of Assistance to the Convicted, an entity…
Continue reading APAC: Prisons without guards, police, weapons, violence, corruption, drugs and discriminationRetribution, incapacitation, deterrence, rehabilitation and restoration…
// Interview: Mark S. Inch Ensuring communities safety through retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, rehabilitation and restoration Secretary of…
Continue reading Retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, rehabilitation and restoration…Make prisons more decent and respectful and prisoners will change their own lives
Sir Martin Narey is NED on the Board of Unilink. Is former Director-General of the Prison Service,…
Continue reading Make prisons more decent and respectful and prisoners will change their own livesCIRA Critical Incidents Readiness Assessment
What is CIRA? CIRA is an organisational risk assessment tool that aims to raise awareness about risks…
Continue reading CIRA Critical Incidents Readiness AssessmentLeadership skills development as a critical factor for occupational stress reduction in correctional settings
Occupational stress and prisons The workplace is one of the critical environments affecting people’s mental and physical…
Continue reading Leadership skills development as a critical factor for occupational stress reduction in correctional settingsPreparing persons in custody for a life without crime
// Interview: Woo Ying-ming Commissioner of Correctional Services, Hong Kong JT: Although the prison population rate…
Continue reading Preparing persons in custody for a life without crimeAchieving Optimum Outcomes in Public-Private Partnerships
Despite the industry’s best efforts to modernise and ‘professionalise’ sourcing practices, project management and service delivery methods;…
Continue reading Achieving Optimum Outcomes in Public-Private PartnershipsA safe return to society as a goal: how can we achieve it?
// Interview: Gerard Bakker Director-General of the National Agency of Correctional Institutions (DJI), The Netherlands JT:…
Continue reading A safe return to society as a goal: how can we achieve it?Ethical and moral reflections on the digital prison
The use of technology is increasing in the criminal justice landscape. This is slowly receiving attention from…
Continue reading Ethical and moral reflections on the digital prisonDigital transformation within the probation sector
On 16 May 2019, the MoJ announced the end of Transforming Rehabilitation, with all offender management now…
Continue reading Digital transformation within the probation sectorThe humanisation plan that seeks a unified and renewed prison model
// Interview: Jean Alain Rodríguez Attorney General of the Dominican Republic JT: March 2019 news reports…
Continue reading The humanisation plan that seeks a unified and renewed prison modelSingapore Prison Service towards total digitisation
// Short interview: Loh Teck En Director of the Transformation and Technology Division, Singapore Prison Service JT:…
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