Alison Hannah, PRI’s Executive Director, reports from Kazakhstan where PRI’s Central Asia office held their first Prison Forum event last week to discuss probation and electronic monitoring. The aim of the conference was to share experience and plans for the expansion of the probation service in Kazakhstan and the introduction of electronic monitoring for offenders. […]
4th April 2013
PRI’s Executive Director, Alison Hannah, reports from Kazakhstan where PRI brought together a forum of policy-makers, national and international experts to support local authorities deliver effective reintegration services for ex-prisoners. The government of Kazakhstan handed over responsibility for the reintegration of ex-prisoners to local authorities a couple of years ago. However, many authorities have experienced […]
20th October 2012
Alison Hannah, PRI’s Executive Director, reports from a workshop for magistrates in Kisumu in Kenya’s Western Province. About ten years ago, PRI worked with local partners in a number of East African countries to help develop and support community service orders (CSOs) as an alternative to imprisonment. CSOs offer a more effective and humane way […]
5th October 2012
For the past week, PRI has delivered training on human rights in prison management for prison and corrections staff, in the beautiful Solomon Islands of the South Pacific. The training was organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and attended by representatives from Australia and a number of island countries: Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, […]
1st June 2012