News & Announcements

PRI blog: how institutional culture and 'alternative management' in prisons contribute to torture and ill-treatment

(10 May 2013) Mushegh Yekmalyan reports from a regional forum in the South Caucasus on institutional culture in prisons organised by PRI's Tbilisi office on 29 April.

PRI recruiting a Project Manager (Death Penalty and Alternative Sanctions programme)

(8 May 2013) PRI is looking for an experienced, diplomatic and motivated individual to play a key role in coordinating the organisation’s work towards the abolition of the death penalty within a project co-funded by the European Union until the end of November 2014.

PRI blog: PRI welcomes the revised EU Guidelines on the Death Penalty

(30 April 2013) PRI’s Death Penalty Programme Manager Jacqueline Macalesher responds to the revised EU Guidelines on the Death Penalty adopted last week, which have made a number of significant improvements to the EU’s policy on the fight against the death penalty.

Expert training for Kazakhstan's local authorities on improving rehabilitation services for former prisoners

(29 April 2013) This training was designed help local authorities in Kazakhstan - which assumed responsibility for the rehabilitation of prisoners in the community in 2010 - to establish effective rehabilitation and reintegration services.

Discussion paper: The Use and Practice of Imprisonment: Current Trends and Future Challenges

PRI's new discussion paper - The Use and Practice of Imprisonment: Current Trends and Future Challenges - presented at the Crime Commission last week is now available for download

Institutional culture in detention: a framework for preventive monitoring

(25 April 2013) PRI and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) have published a joint paper on culture in places of detention. Read our joint blog.