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PRI celebrates its 25th anniversary with a debate on: “If prison doesn’t work, what does?”
“A lot of the solutions to criminal justice problems don’t lie within prison walls. They are out there in public health, in housing, in social justice, in the relationships between people and in restorative justice,” said Juliet Lyon, PRI’s Secretary-General, kicking off the panel discussion held in celebration of PRI’s 25th anniversary in London last […]
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Seminar discusses how to increase the use of probation in Bangladesh
On Friday 20 December, PRI and its partner organisation, the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) held a joint seminar on the use of probation as an alternative to imprisonment in Bangladesh. While the legislative framework in Bangladesh allows for offenders charged with a wide range of minor offences to be placed on probation, […]
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PRI and the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) to hold seminar on probation on 20 December
This Saturday, PRI and its local partner BLAST, will be holding a national seminar on probation as an alternative to imprisonment. While the legislative framework in Bangladesh allows for offenders charged with a wide range of minor offences to be placed on probation, it is rarely used, and overreliance on prison sentences has contributed to severe […]
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Representatives from eight African countries discuss the development of community service
On 6-8 November, PRI co-hosted an Africa Alternatives to Imprisonment Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in partnership with the Government Probation Departments in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and our local NGO partners in the region. Twenty senior officials from Government Probation and Community Service departments in eight African countries (Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South […]
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PRI co-hosting East Africa conference on Alternatives to Imprisonment this week
On 6-8 November, PRI is co-hosting an Africa Alternatives to Imprisonment Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in partnership with the Government Probation Departments in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and our local NGO partners in the region. Prison overcrowding is a serious problem in East Africa. The occupancy rate of prisons in Tanzania is over […]
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PRI promoting alternatives to imprisonment at Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators
PRI has been invited by the Government of India to attend and present at the Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators (APCCA) taking place in Delhi, India from 23 – 27 September 2013. PRI will be chairing the fourth day of the conference: the session on ‘Alternatives to Imprisonment: Challenges in Developing Community-based Supervision […]
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PRI to attend and present at the first World Congress on Probation
PRI welcomes the opportunity to attend and present its work at the first World Congress on Probation which will take place from 8-10 October 2013. On 10 October, PRI Programme Director, Nikhil Roy, will present the session ‘Introducing community sentences in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh’, speaking alongside Zakir Shuaib the author of PRI’s report Probation […]
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PRI at the 24th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council – a look ahead
PRI will be engaging on two priority issues at the 24th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council which will open on 9 September in Geneva: the abolition of the death penalty and the human rights impact of the overuse of imprisonment. The session will run for three weeks and the agenda is packed, with over 40 resolutions […]
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Discussion paper: The Use and Practice of Imprisonment: Current Trends and Future Challenges
Last Friday (26 April 2013) at the 22nd Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna, PRI presented a discussion paper The Use and Practice of Imprisonment: Current Trends and Future Challenges at a side-event. Despite a night session of the Committee of the Whole on the Thursday evening, the side event […]
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PRI’s Central Asia office are hosting training for journalists on reporting on penal reform issues
PRI’s Central Asia office are running training for 25 journalists on reporting on penal reform issues in Astana this week. The training will be led by a team of experts from the United Kingdom, including Malcolm Dean, former Guardian journalist, now working for the Guardian Foundation, and from Kazakhstan. The goal of the event is to […]