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As the highest human rights body of the United Nations starts in session, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit countries around the globe and presents threats to the health and life of people in contact with criminal justice systems.
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On 4 June 2020, Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit gave the ‘Roger Hood’ Lecture at the University of Oxford.Titled ‘The People Strike Back? Life imprisonment and other ultimate penalties in a constitutional democracy’ the lecture looked into the fight of penal reformers to make ultimate penalties more humane. Penal reformers ‘sought, with some success, not only to abolish the death penalty but also to limit the imposition of life sentences and to ensure that those serving life imprisonment have realistic prospects of release’.
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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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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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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 panel event, which took place at Linklaters LLP, brought together experts to discuss the most urgent and emerging issues facing criminal justice systems worldwide.
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Today, PRI launches its annual flagship publication, Global Prison Trends 2018, at the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.