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Artificial Intelligence on Trial

Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology bring new possibilities for its application, not only to automatise tasks but to create new opportunities through the analysis of large data sets. Read More
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Justice and beyond: Council of Europe working on setting global benchmarks on artificial intelligence

Jan Kleijssen, Director of the Information Society and Action against Crime Directorate, Council of Europe Read More
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Making changes on several fronts: infrastructure, personnel, health and digital

Rudy Van De Voorde, Director-General Belgian Prison Service Read More
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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 Read More
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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 Read More
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Making a strategic investment to give a big step forward in modernisation

Deborah Richardson, Deputy Solicitor General (Correctional Services), Ontario, Canada Read More
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A digital leap in Canada’s federal corrections triggered by the pandemic

Anne Kelly, Commissioner of the Correctional Service of Canada Read More

Smart Prison: A historical digital leap in Finnish prisons

Article Pia Puolakka Project’s background In 2015, Finnish legislation enabled prisoners to gain digital access to social, educational and health... Read More

Video calls in prisons: current needs and challenges after the pandemic

Article Dave Lageweg The importance of maintaining the social ties of prisoners is well documented, and it is now common... Read More

Making prison and probation work

Article Francis Toye Imagine for a moment that you are responsible for the operation of information technology in prisons and... Read More
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Social distancing in prison

Article ODSecurity 2020 was a challenging year for worldwide correctional services managing the devastating effects of COVID-19, and although the... Read More

Domestic Violence: Do restraining orders really provide protection?

Article Roni Weinberg The Global Study on Homicide (1) suggests that more than a third of all female victims in... Read More
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New Software to Access the World Prison Brief Dataset: The prisonbrief Statistical Package∗

Danilo Freire & Robert Myles McDonnell The World Prison Brief Dataset (WPB) provides a unique source of information about the... Read More
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Preparing persons in custody for a life without crime

Woo Ying-ming, Commissioner of Correctional Services, Hong Kong Read More
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A safe return to society as a goal: how can we achieve it?

Gerard Bakker, Director-General of the National Agency of Correctional Institutions (DJI), The Netherlands Read More
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Espírito Santo: The extensive transformation of the state prison system

Luiz Carlos Cruz, Secretary of State for Justice, Espírito Santo, Brazil Read More
Fabiano Bordignon

Modernising and strenghtening the capacity of the federal and state level penitentiary systems

Fabiano Bordignon, General Director of the National Penitentiary Department (DEPEN), Brazil Read More

CIRA Critical Incidents Readiness Assessment

What is CIRA? CIRA is an organisational risk assessment tool that aims to raise awareness about risks and support prison... Read More

Make prisons more decent and respectful and prisoners will change their own lives

// The Unilink Group consists of four companies operating in the Criminal Justice Sector: Unilink Software, providing biometrically enabled Custodial... Read More

Human dignity and privacy: Ensuring compliance with the Nelson Mandela Rules during body searches

Nelson Mandela once said, “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not... Read More
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Better technology in Public-Private Partnerships allow cost-savings for government

Public-private partnerships in the operation of prisons have existed since long time ago, although the extent of reliance on the... Read More

Inmate’s family and community contacts: beyond the rehabilitation speech, there is a real need for action…

In the developed and modern 21st century, the punishment, retribution, security, rehabilitation and restorative dimensions of the prison sentence, cannot... Read More
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The ambitious justice reform in France

Nicole Belloubet, Minister of Justice, France Read More

From plan to action: the recent probation service of Slovenia

Danijela Mrhar Prelić, Director of the National Probation Service, Slovenia Read More
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RAN P&P: A working group dedicated to the issue of radicalisation in correctional settings in Europe and beyond

Torben Adams, Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN), Co-chair of the Prison and Probation Working Group (P&P), RAN, European Commission Read More
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Times of change and modernisation in the Portuguese justice system

Francisca Van Dunem, Minister of Justice, Portugal Read More
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Prison intelligence: contributions of decision-makers from Belgium, Canada and Argentina

Warren Coons Director General of the Preventive Security and Intelligence Branch, Correctional Service Canada The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC)... Read More

Ethical and moral reflections on the digital prison

The use of technology is increasing in the criminal justice landscape. This is slowly receiving attention from academic research in... Read More
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GPS Technology – A tool for the reintegration of radicalised offenders into society

After a series of high-profile terrorist attacks involving previously incarcerated extremists during the last half-decade, “prison radicalisation” is an increasing... Read More
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Digital transformation within the probation sector

  These reforms are designed to build on the successful elements of the existing system, Transforming Rehabilitation, which led to... Read More

Radicalisation, dynamic security, technologies and other focal points of Bremen’s correctional system

Sebastian Schulenberg, Director General of Prisons and Probation, Senator for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Bremen, Germany Read More

Comprehensive efforts to reduce overcrowding, implement technology and counter extremism

Brigadier Ayman Turki AL Awaisheh, Director General of Correctional and Rehabilitation Centres, Jordan Read More

“The great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together”

The threat of radicalisation and terrorism has shown no boundaries. Expressed in different forms or formats, it is not specific... Read More

Improving prison effectiveness through secure communications and the use of machine learning technologies

The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners state that prisoners have the right to communicate with family and... Read More

What do we know about American prison gangs?

Prison gangs are pervasive in American corrections. According to official figures, thousands of inmates are currently affiliated with gangs, with... Read More
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X-Ray scanning in prisons: ensuring safety and effectiveness

With drugs entering our prison systems on a regular basis, we need to address the “elephant in the room” that... Read More
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VR for drug rehabilitation

Developing and Using Virtual Reality Technology for the Rehabilitation of Drug Users in the Probation Service   This project aims... Read More

WayOut Integrated exit programme for prisons and probation

The WayOut project is fundamentally aimed at building a common framework to evaluate Exit programmes along with the development of... Read More
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The Swiss correctional system: the complex challenge of harmonisation

Ronald Gramigna, Fredy Fässler, Sylvie Bula, Switzerland Read More
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The Hungarian correctional system on the path to modernisation

Major General Dr Tamás Tóth, Director General of the Hungarian Prison Service  Read More

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