“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out... Read More
Alternative Measures and Pretrial Detention
The acknowledgement of the negative impact of imprisonment on individuals, families and communities led, over the last three decades, to... Read More
Hans Meurisse, Director-General of the Belgium Prison Service and President of EuroPris the European Association of Prisons and Correctional Services Read More
Gerry McNally, President of the Confederation of European Probation (CEP) Read More
Marianne Vollan, Director General of the Norwegian Correctional Service, Norway Read More
Enis Yavuz Yildirim, Director General of Prisons and Detention Houses, Turkey Read More
Most of the treatment literature in corrections focuses on the challenge of ‘reintegration’ – how best to encourage and support... Read More
In the last 20 to 40 years, probation went through significant transformations. One of these changes that can be noticed... Read More
Rodil Hernández, Director General of Penitentiary Institutions of El Salvador Read More
Peer training is increasingly needed, especially for disadvantaged groups. The placement of offenders in peer-support roles is also increasingly recommended... Read More
Mental health conditions are especially prevalent among the incarcerated population, which presently amounts to about 10 million, worldwide. These mental... Read More
Celso Manata, Director of the General Directorate of Reintegration and Prison Services, Portugal Read More
Mihai Dima, Director General of the Romanian Probation System, Romania Read More
Judge Edgar Taborda Lopes, Coordinator of the Training Department of the Centre for Judicial Studies, Portugal Read More
The model of deprivation of liberty in Latin America has been going through a deep crisis for decades, and penitentiaries... Read More
Arkel Benítez Mendizábal, Secretary-General of COMJIB, Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries Read More
Vivian Geiran, President of the Council for Penological Cooperation (PC-CP) of the Council of Europe and Director of the Irish Probation Service Read More
Ángel Yuste Castillejo, Secretary General of Penitentiary Institutions, Spain Read More
Priit Kama, Deputy Secretary-General for Prisons, Estonia Read More
Annie Devos, Director General of the Houses of Justice, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Belgium Read More
Joerg Jesse, Director General, Prison and Probation Administration of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany Read More
Peter van der Sande, President of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) Read More
The project “Improving capacities and capabilities within the prison service in the Republic of Serbia” especially focuses on providing support... Read More
Alison Hannah, Executive Director of Penal Reform International (PRI) Read More
There seems to be a consensus that prison and probation need to have close interaction and communication whenever a continuum... Read More
Ever Martínez, Minister of Justice, Paraguay Read More
Stéphane Bredin, Director General of the Prison Administration, France Read More
In the last 40 years, one of the main concerns for prison administrations was the reduction of prison populations. The... Read More
Women are a minority in prison. Currently, of the 10.35 million prisoners worldwide, over 700.000 (6.8%) are female (1). However,... Read More
The judicial and corrections sector, both from academics and practitioners’ point of view, has traditionally been quite cautious when it... Read More
If, as Dostoyevsky said, the degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its prisons, we could... Read More
Koen Geens, Minister of Justice, Belgium Read More
Gary Mohr, Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, United States of America Read More
Best practices show that electronic monitoring (EM) can be an interesting tool, especially if used to serve a strategy of... Read More
Jennifer Oades, Chairperson of the Parole Board of Canada
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Rehabilitation is a long-term goal that most countries have not begun to address. Although some have redesigned their institutional mission... Read More
Martin F. Horn, Executive Director of the New York State Permanent Commission on Sentencing, New York, USA Read More
Dimitri Vlassis, Chief coordinator of the programme for the implementation of the Doha Declaration, United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime (UNODC) Read More
Věra Jourová, European Union Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender equality Read More