The acknowledgement of the negative impact of imprisonment on individuals, families and communities led, over the last three decades, to... Read More
Human Rights and Standards
Marianne Vollan, Director General of the Norwegian Correctional Service, Norway Read More
According to the statistics of the Council of Europe, the total prison population in the European Union on September 1st... Read More
Most of the treatment literature in corrections focuses on the challenge of ‘reintegration’ – how best to encourage and support... Read More
Inmate family support and social ties are often referred to in criminological theories as important elements of crime prevention and... Read More
In the last 20 to 40 years, probation went through significant transformations. One of these changes that can be noticed... Read More
Mohamed Salah Tamek, Delegate General of the Correctional Department, Kingdom of Morocco Read More
Rodil Hernández, Director General of Penitentiary Institutions of El Salvador Read More
Project partners BSAFE LAB law enforcement, justice and public safety research and technology transfer lab – Beira Interior University, 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
Celso Manata, Director of the General Directorate of Reintegration and Prison Services, Portugal Read More
Judge Edgar Taborda Lopes, Coordinator of the Training Department of the Centre for Judicial Studies, Portugal Read More
Kathleen Van De Vijver and Tine Verhenne, Belgian Prison Service, Belgium Read More
The model of deprivation of liberty in Latin America has been going through a deep crisis for decades, and penitentiaries... Read More
“When I moved to HMP Northumberland I was so happy to see a kiosk. In my previous prisons, friends spoke... Read More
Arkel Benítez Mendizábal, Secretary-General of COMJIB, Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries Read More
Nela Kuburovic, Minister of Justice, Republic of Serbia 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
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
Criminological paradigms, such as the “Social Bond Theory”, offer no doubt about the importance of social bonds and family support... 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
Ever Martínez, Minister of Justice, Paraguay 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
Jails in America are obsolete and so are the buildings and the philosophy behind them. But, right now, they’re often... 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
Desmond Chin, Commissioner of the Singapore Prison Service Read More
Jennifer Oades, Chairperson of the Parole Board of Canada
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According to the recent statistics, Britons on average make 132 million mobile phone calls a day. On top of this,... 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
Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Prison Philanthropist, UK 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