Last month former Guardian journalist Malcolm Dean helped to train 25 journalists in Kazakhstan on current issues in criminal justice reform, the current situation in Kazakhstan’s prisons, strategies for good journalism and successful techniques for bringing criminal justice and human rights to public attention. It came as a shock to learn that only a few […]
4th April 2013
Promising progress is being made towards the greater user of community service orders in Uganda, but some challenges remain. PRI consultant Rob Allen reports from a recent PRI training course for magistrates in Mbarara in the west of the country. Mbarara in Western Uganda was the venue this week for the latest in a series […]
1st December 2012
While prison reform has hardly figured in the US Presidential campaign, there are signs that America’s love affair with incarceration may be coming to an end…. Read Rob Allen’s full blog on Justice for Prisons.
6th November 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