Martin F. Horn, Executive Director of the New York State Permanent Commission on Sentencing, New York, USA Read More
According to the recent statistics, Britons on average make 132 million mobile phone calls a day. On top of this,... Read More
In Ibero-America, we live in democracy after ending the dictatorial regimes. In international time, that was just the day before... Read More
Introduction – Moving the dial The mission of corrections is a constant. However, the environment is which it operates is... 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
You have a kid that you have taken care of your whole life, and suddenly he/she ends up in prison.... Read More
Incarceration in Canada To be incarcerated means that the justice system has deemed that an individual be separated from society... Read More
The R2PRIS certification is a capacity building programme developed with the support of the European Commission and built as the... Read More
On the 27th February 2018, the European Commission (EC) and the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union... Read More
Jennifer Oades, Chairperson of the Parole Board of Canada
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Best practices show that electronic monitoring (EM) can be an interesting tool, especially if used to serve a strategy of... Read More
Francisco Alberto Caricati, Director General of the Penitentiary Department of the State of Paraná, Brazil Read More
Desmond Chin, Commissioner of the Singapore Prison Service Read More
Gary Mohr, Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, United States of America Read More
Koen Geens, Minister of Justice, Belgium 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
If, as Dostoyevsky said, the degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its prisons, we could... Read More
The one constant of technology is that it is always evolving. While this constant evolution has the potential to enable... Read More
This is quite a dilemma for many correctional agencies: once decided that something needs to happen to modernise the current... Read More
The judicial and corrections sector, both from academics and practitioners’ point of view, has traditionally been quite cautious when it... Read More
Cases of violence, arson and planned terror attacks, combined with the worrying number of young people joining extremist organisations or... 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
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
In the last 40 years, one of the main concerns for prison administrations was the reduction of prison populations. The... Read More
Stéphane Bredin, Director General of the Prison Administration, France Read More
Ofra Klinger, Lieutenant General, Commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, Israel Read More
Ever Martínez, Minister of Justice, Paraguay Read More
There seems to be a consensus that prison and probation need to have close interaction and communication whenever a continuum... Read More
Alison Hannah, Executive Director of Penal Reform International (PRI) Read More
The project “Improving capacities and capabilities within the prison service in the Republic of Serbia” especially focuses on providing support... Read More
Criminological paradigms, such as the “Social Bond Theory”, offer no doubt about the importance of social bonds and family support... Read More
Juan Torres López, Director General of CIRE Centre for Reintegration Initiatives, Catalonia, Spain Read More
Peter van der Sande, President of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) Read More
Don Head, Commissioner of the Correctional Service, Canada Read More
Peter Severin, Commissioner of the New South Wales Corrective Services (NSWCS), Australia 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