Editorial
The opportunity that emerged from chaos
Pedro das Neves
Director
Interviews
Respect for the rule of law at the core of the justice portfolio
Didier Reynders
European Commissioner for Justice, European Commission
Justice and Peace: challenges and advancements in times of pandemic
Fiorella Salazar Rojas
Ministra de Justicia y Paz, Costa Rica
Justice and beyond: Council of Europe working on setting global benchmarks on AI
Jan Kleijssen
Director of the Information Society and Action against Crime Directorate, Council of Europe
Making changes on several fronts: infrastructure, personnel, health and digital
Rudy Van De Voorde
Director-General Belgian Prison Service
A digital leap in Canada's federal corrections triggered by the pandemic
Anne Kelly
Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada
Challenges and priorities for the Portuguese prison system... And the ongoing transformation despite COVID-19
Rómulo Mateus
Director-General of Reintegration and Prison Services, Portugal
Making a strategic investment to give a big step forward in modernisation
Deborah Richardson
Deputy Solicitor General (Correctional Services), Ontario, Canada
Challenges and opportunities for a prison system with more than 200,000 inmates
Nivaldo Restivo
Colonel, Secretary of State for the penitentiary Administration, São Paulo, Brazil
Prison overcrowding and staffing problems: Critical situation leads to unprecedented strategies
Ina Eliasen
Director-General, Department of Prisons and Probation, Denmark
A focus on reducing recidivism both in custody and community corrections
David Brown
Chief Executive, Department for Correctional Services, South Australia
What solutions for the mentally ill caught in the web of a broken criminal justice system?
Christine Montross, M.D.
Psychiatrist, author of “Waiting for an Echo – The Madness of American Incarceration”, USA
Achieving systemic changes through the investigation of inmates' complaints
Ivan Zinger
Correctional Investigator of Canada
An NGO dedicated to assisting (ex)convicts in becoming employed or entrepreneurs
Victor Dickson
President and CEO, Safer Foundation, USA
Experts' Panel
The New European Bauhaus: An opportunity to revisit the way we think about prisons
Ana Maria Evans & Pedro das Neves
The New European Bauhaus: the experts’ view
Panelists
Robert Boraks
Architect & Director of Parkin Architects
Hans Meurisse
Vice-President, ICPA International Corrections and Prisons Association and Chairperson of the ICPA European Chapter
Marayca Lopez
Justice & Civic Planning Leader, DLR Group
Are Høidal
Governor, Halden Prison, Norwegian Correctional Service
Pia Puolakka
Project manager, Criminal Sanctions Agency of Finland
Steve Carter
Founder & Executive Vice-President for Global Strategic Development, CGL Companies
Steven van de Steene
Enterprise architect and Corrections technology consultant
Articles
Domestic Violence: Do restraining orders really provide protection?
Roni Weinberg (Attenti)
Smart Prison: a historical digital leap in Finnish prisons
Pia Puolakka
Social distancing in prison
ODSecurity
Video calls in prisons: current needs and challenges after the pandemic
Dave Lageweg (Telio)
Beyond Prisons: Women and Community Corrections - ICPA TASKFORCE
Diane Williams & Jennifer Oades
Use of offender electronic monitoring expands during pandemic
José Demetrio (Geosatis)
Making prison and probation work
Francis Toye (Unilink)
Partners
Attenti
Telio
ODSecurity
Geosatis
Unilink
Featured projects
PO21 European Prison Officers for the 21st Century
DIGICOR Digitalisation in corrections towards recidivism reduction initiative
LEADCOR Leadership development for occupational stress reduction in correctional settings
PRETRIAD Judicial Awareness and cooperation towards the realisation of common standards