By Russel Webster Public Health England’s annual health and justice review highlights specific health needs of women and older prisoners.... Read More
Alternative Measures and Pretrial Detention
Fiorella Salazar Rojas, Minister of Justice and Peace, Costa Rica Read More
Ricardo Pérez Manrique, Judge, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Read More
Nathalie Alvarado, Head of Citizen Security and Justice, Inter-American Development Bank Read More
Deborah Richardson, Deputy Solicitor General (Correctional Services), Ontario, Canada Read More
By Russel Webster Inquest examines the rising number of women who die in prison, 11 years after the Corston report.... Read More
Věra Jourová, European Union Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender equality Read More
Nivaldo Restivo, Colonel, Secretary of State for the penitentiary Administration, São Paulo, Brazil Read More
The judicial and corrections sector, both from academics and practitioners’ point of view, has traditionally been quite cautious when it... 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
Alexandre Zouev, Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, United Nations 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
Arkel Benítez Mendizábal, Secretary-General of COMJIB, Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries Read More
Rehabilitation is a long-term goal that most countries have not begun to address. Although some have redesigned their institutional mission... Read More
Susan Kigula, Human rights activist, Uganda Read More
Danijela Mrhar Prelić, Director of the National Probation Service, Slovenia Read More
Enis Yavuz Yildirim, Director General of Prisons and Detention Houses, Turkey Read More
Gemma Tuccillo, Head of the Department of Juvenile and Community Justice, Ministry of Justice, Italy Read More
In the last 20 to 40 years, probation went through significant transformations. One of these changes that can be noticed... Read More
The project “Improving capacities and capabilities within the prison service in the Republic of Serbia” especially focuses on providing support... Read More
Etéreo Armando Medina, Director-General of the Penitentiary System, Panama Read More
Ever Martínez, Minister of Justice, Paraguay Read More
Gary Mohr, Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, United States of America Read More
David Brown, Chief Executive, Department for Correctional Services, South Australia 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
The acknowledgement of the negative impact of imprisonment on individuals, families and communities led, over the last three decades, to... Read More
Most of the treatment literature in corrections focuses on the challenge of ‘reintegration’ – how best to encourage and support... Read More
Prison officers in Europe In Europe[1], there are nowadays, more than 588 940 citizens under the custody of the... Read More
By Russel Webster New MoJ research confirms that release on temporary licence (ROTL) reduces reoffending and more ROTLs reduce reoffending... Read More
Article Francis Toye Imagine for a moment that you are responsible for the operation of information technology in prisons and... Read More
Stéphane Bredin, Director General of the Prison Administration, France Read More
Nicole Belloubet, Minister of Justice, France Read More
Judge Edgar Taborda Lopes, Coordinator of the Training Department of the Centre for Judicial Studies, Portugal Read More
Joerg Jesse, Director General, Prison and Probation Administration of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany Read More
These reforms are designed to build on the successful elements of the existing system, Transforming Rehabilitation, which led to... Read More
Ysmael Paniagua Guerrero, Coordinator of the New Penitentiary Management Model, Dominican Republic Read More
Article Roni Weinberg The Global Study on Homicide (1) suggests that more than a third of all female victims in... Read More