Denis Angeri of Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI) Uganda, praises the commitment of the Ugandan government to children’s rights but says that much more needs to be done to protect children in conflict with the law. In particular, stronger measures are needed to protect the growing number of street children who should be protected but are frequently rounded […]
3rd October 2014
Courts have started to consider whole life sentences without the possibility of parole to be in breach of the prohibition on inhuman and degrading punishment. But what about ordinary prison sentences? In the fourth blog in our anniversary series, Dr Mary Rogan, Head of Law at Dublin Institute of Technology and Chair of the Irish Penal […]
25th August 2014
Амнистия или прощение в уголовном законодательстве представляется в настоящее время дискуссионным институтом. Принимаемый на некие юбилеи и памятные государственные даты, она направлена на прощение осужденного с последующим освобождением его от уголовной ответственности, от наказания, или смягчение наказания и даже снятие судимости. Затрагивая сферу уголовно-правовых отношений, амнистию следует больше рассматривать как конституционный институт. Отметим, что последние […]
16th July 2014
Currently PRI Central Asia is implementing a project to humanise the criminal justice systems of Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan through establishing criminal legislative codes in line with international human rights standards. PRI along with local partners (Golos Svobody in Kyrgyz Republic and Human Rights Center in Tajikistan) organised expert meetings, workshops for local civil society […]
2nd July 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
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
Alison Hannah, PRI’s Executive Director reports from a regional conference in Kazakhstan on the development of prison legislation in Central Asia. In England and Wales, prisons are reaching crisis point. According to a recent report there are only 265 free prison places out of the 85,800 prison estate capacity. Emergency measures may be needed to […]
18th March 2014
Professor Anthony Doob is one of the three-most cited scholars in Canada and one of the top 25 most-cited scholars worldwide. He is renowned for his insights into Canada’s youth justice system, sentencing and imprisonment and for his influence on policy. He will be giving a lecture at the University of Toronto on 6 February […]
5th February 2014
PRI’s Programme Development Director, Nikhil Roy, recently visited Bangladesh and spoke at a roundtable discussion on Probation as an Alternative to Imprisonment: Legal Framework and Current Practice, organised jointly by PRI and our partner in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST). Here Mubinul Mulk, BLAST Research Associate and Nikhil discuss the prospects […]
29th January 2014