Exercising leadership can be as exciting and rewarding as a distressing and lonely experience, even when surrounded by many people.... Read More
Offender Rehabilitation
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out... Read More
Lady Edwina Grosvenor, Prison Philanthropist, UK Read More
Veronica D’Souza, CARCEL’s social enterprise founder and CEO Read More
Overcoming the challenges of prison overcrowding has proven to be a difficult task for many jurisdictions around the globe. Social... Read More
There is a tendency to associate virtual reality with the gaming industry as, over the past couple of years, we... Read More
On the 27th February 2018, the European Commission (EC) and the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union... Read More
The R2PRIS certification is a capacity building programme developed with the support of the European Commission and built as the... Read More
Incarceration in Canada To be incarcerated means that the justice system has deemed that an individual be separated from society... Read More
You have a kid that you have taken care of your whole life, and suddenly he/she ends up in prison.... 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
Introduction – Moving the dial The mission of corrections is a constant. However, the environment is which it operates is... Read More
This project strives to improve the transition process between prison and/or probation systems and the community for those at risk... Read More
Electronic monitoring and the future What do we talk about when we talk about “electronic monitoring” (EM)? We talk about... Read More
EIGEP proposal focuses on reducing the disparities in the learning outcomes of the educational experience of a child within the... 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
The understanding that it is possible to make electronic monitoring (EM) technology evolve into the spectrum of preventive action is... 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
Trends influence virtually every aspect of daily living impacting what we eat, wear, listen to, purchase, believe, and trust. Establishing... 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
Today, across Europe, numerous countries are dealing with the growing threat of radicalisation. While much has been made of the... Read More
Criminological paradigms, such as the “Social Bond Theory”, offer no doubt about the importance of social bonds and family support... Read More
Mohamed Salah Tamek, Delegate General of the Correctional Department, Kingdom of Morocco 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
Cases of violence, arson and planned terror attacks, combined with the worrying number of young people joining extremist organisations or... Read More
The judicial and corrections sector, both from academics and practitioners’ point of view, has traditionally been quite cautious when it... Read More
The one constant of technology is that it is always evolving. While this constant evolution has the potential to enable... Read More
If, as Dostoyevsky said, the degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its prisons, we could... Read More
“The contrast between a prison with and without kiosks is like night and day.” (Prisoner S.M., HMP Northumberland, operated by... Read More
Best practices show that electronic monitoring (EM) can be an interesting tool, especially if used to serve a strategy of... Read More
Rodil Hernández, Director General of Penitentiary Institutions of El Salvador Read More
