Capacity building for correctional staff in the Philippines

In January-February 2023, PRI delivered a 3-week series of trainings in partnership with UNODC in the Philippines on the UN Nelson Mandela Rules and Bangkok Rules, reaching 150 frontline jail and prison officers from Luzon, Visayas and Davao regions in the Philippines, in collaboration with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) and the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor). The curriculum, built from local needs, focused, among other areas, on pretrial detention, overcrowding, health, deaths in prison, contact with the outside world and the role of prison staff in rehabilitation and reintegration.

These trainings are part of our project Protecting prisoners’ human rights in the Philippines through capacity building for correctional staff and detention monitoring, supported by the UNODC in the Philippines. It aims to improve human rights protection in detention by increasing capacity among jail and prison staff, as well as external prison monitoring mechanisms, on practical implementation of international standards related to places of detention.