Alexandre Zouev, Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, United Nations Read More
Alternative Measures and Pretrial Detention
Context Criminal justice in Brazil faces many challenges, as crime is growing and the prisons are packed. The volume of... Read More
Context The Adoption of Electronic Monitoring Technologies The Portuguese Ministry of Justice is no stranger to the multiple benefits that... Read More
By Russel Webster Inquest examines the rising number of women who die in prison, 11 years after the Corston report.... Read More
By Russel Webster New MoJ research confirms that release on temporary licence (ROTL) reduces reoffending and more ROTLs reduce reoffending... Read More
By Russel Webster Prison environments and women prisoners’ needs are complex and demand gender-aware care in view of women’s vulnerability... Read More
By Russel Webster Public Health England’s annual health and justice review highlights specific health needs of women and older prisoners.... Read More
By Russel Webster Prisoners and probation officers had different perceptions of how much prisoners understood recall, how much they communicated... Read More
Koen Geens, Minister of Justice, Belgium Read More
Věra Jourová, European Union Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender equality Read More
By Russel Webster NACRO briefing on how Friday prison releases can damage resettlement before it’s even properly started. A new... Read More
Arkel Benítez Mendizábal, Secretary-General of COMJIB, Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries Read More
Susan Kigula, Human rights activist, Uganda Read More
Ysmael Paniagua Guerrero, Coordinator of the New Penitentiary Management Model, Dominican Republic Read More
Joao Goulão MD, Director General of SICAD, the Portuguese Service in Addiction Behaviours and Dependencies, Portugal Read More
Honourable Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, Head of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, United States of America 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
Martin F. Horn, Executive Director of the New York State Permanent Commission on Sentencing, New York, USA Read More
Jennifer Oades, Chairperson of the Parole Board of Canada
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Gary Mohr, Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, United States of America Read More
Stéphane Bredin, Director General of the Prison Administration, France Read More
Ever Martínez, Minister of Justice, Paraguay Read More
Alison Hannah, Executive Director of Penal Reform International (PRI) Read More
Peter van der Sande, President of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) Read More
Joerg Jesse, Director General, Prison and Probation Administration of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany Read More
Annie Devos, Director General of the Houses of Justice, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Belgium Read More
Priit Kama, Deputy Secretary-General for Prisons, Estonia Read More
Ángel Yuste Castillejo, Secretary General of Penitentiary Institutions, Spain 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
The model of deprivation of liberty in Latin America has been going through a deep crisis for decades, and penitentiaries... Read More
Judge Edgar Taborda Lopes, Coordinator of the Training Department of the Centre for Judicial Studies, Portugal Read More
Mihai Dima, Director General of the Romanian Probation System, Romania Read More
Celso Manata, Director of the General Directorate of Reintegration and Prison Services, Portugal Read More
Mental health conditions are especially prevalent among the incarcerated population, which presently amounts to about 10 million, worldwide. These mental... 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
Rodil Hernández, Director General of Penitentiary Institutions of El Salvador Read More
Best practices show that electronic monitoring (EM) can be an interesting tool, especially if used to serve a strategy of... Read More
