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PRI wishes to express its sympathy with the criminal justice reform community following the attack in London on Friday 29 November 2019 at a prisoner rehabilitation event, which led to the deaths of two representatives of a prisoner education programme, Learning Together.
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This year PRI is celebrating 30 years of accomplishments in developing and promoting fair and effective criminal justice systems across the world.
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Open Society Foundations has awarded Penal Reform International's Executive Director, Florian Irminger, a New Executives Fund, which will help implement a 'vision of catalytic organisational change'.
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PRI joins partners to launch Global Prison Trends 2019 at an event focusing on life imprisonment on 15 October 2019 in New York.
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Over 30 years, PRI has had many successes, working in more than 90 countries. We are proud of our past achievements and look forward to the years ahead.
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Alongside the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in Vienna, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and Open Society Justice Initiative, PRI will be hosting an event titled Human Rights in the Administration of Justice, at the upcoming United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (May 2019).
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On 9 January, the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic endorsed three policy documents essential to the demilitarisation and reform of prisons in the Central African Republic. The United Nations MINUSCA partnered with PRI to develop the demilitarisation strategy, in collaboration with national stakeholders.
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The aim of the forum was to bring together key civil society actors to discuss and strategise how to tackle the increase and implementation of the use of life imprisonment and to establish a global coalition.
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The conference brought together representatives from five countries to share experiences on effective prison management of violent extremism offenders.