Andrea Huber welcomes the UN Principles and Guidelines on Access to Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems and their recognition that special measures are needed to ensure legal aid for women, but says that they are just a first step to ensuring that women do not face disadvantage because of their gender at any stage of the criminal […]
30th June 2014
In the second blog in our anniversary series, Dr Shane Bryans, a former UK prison governor and criminal justice expert, who has worked on prison-based de-radicalisation programmes in a number of countries, examines how prison administrations can manage violent extremist offenders. Countries on every continent are facing the challenge of managing Violent Extremist Offenders (VEOs) within their prison systems. Preventing them […]
25th June 2014
PRI’s Executive Director reports from a meeting organised by the Open Society Foundations to discuss how the US can support interventions to improve prison conditions in developing countries. It’s a few years now since PRI had to close its small office in the U.S. when funding ran out, and since then it’s been more difficult […]
11th June 2014
PRI’s Policy Director, Andrea Huber, looks at the some of the major trends – national, international, the good, the bad and the ugly – in criminal justice and penal policy over the last few years. This blog was first published by the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. If there is a criminal […]
11th June 2014
PRI обозначил работу с несовершеннолетними как одну из приоритетных задач. В рамках этого направления наш офис реализует ряд проектов в трех странах Центральной Азии, одним из них является проект по апробированию ювенальной дивергенции на местном и центральном уровне, реализуемый при поддержке Детского Фонда ООН Юнисеф. Как известно, Конвенция ООН о правах ребенка, ратифицированная Казахстаном еще в […]
3rd June 2014
In the first of our expert blog series in our 25th anniversary year, Rob Allen, penal reform expert and co-author of a recent World Bank paper on public-private partnerships in prisons, surveys the arguments and existing evidence in favour of and against the involvement of private companies in prison services. When PRI was founded in […]
23rd May 2014
This blog has kindly been provided by Mike Nellis, Professor Emeritus at Strathclyde Law School’s Centre for Law, Crime and Justice and Dr Dominik Lehner Head of Penal Services, Justice and Security Department, Basel. Dr Lehner introduced the use of electronic monitoring in Switzerland in 2000 and he and Professor Nellis, an academic expert on electronic monitoring, were nominated to […]
1st May 2014
PRI is very happy to welcome into force the 3rd Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (OP3). OP3 establishes a ‘Communications Procedure’, providing children with an international complaints mechanism to address violations of their rights. In January 2014, Costa Rica became the 10th country to ratify OP3 – bringing it […]
22nd April 2014
On 15 April 2014 PRI organised a Regional Conference ‘Towards a Complete Abolition of the Death Penalty in Tajikistan: Experience of Central Asian Countries’. The event was organised in cooperation with Presidential Administration of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Swiss Cooperation Office, League of women lawyers in Tajikistan, with the financial support of UK aid […]
16th April 2014
An important step towards a revised set of the 1955 UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners as described by PRI’s Policy Director, Andrea Huber and Programme Officer, Olivia Rope who attended the third Expert Group Meeting on the revision process in Vienna last week. Last week Penal Reform International attended the 3rd Intergovernmental […]
1st April 2014