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Institutional personnel and training for female prison officers (Rules 29-35, Chapter 10) PRI in the Middle East and North Africa acknowledged the importance of enhancing the capacity of female police officers in Yemen and increasing their numbers in service (including in prison management) and empowering them to have access to senior positions with key responsibility for […]
Annual Report
PRI’s Annual Report outlines the impact of our work and achievements in 2020 nationally, regionally and internationally. Highlights in 2020 included: Publication of the Global Prison Trends Report 2020, in partnership with the Thailand Institute of Justice (our annual flagship publication); When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, PRI respond swiftly, releasing analysis and recommendations on the effects of the […]
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National drug policies that result in imprisonment of people who use drugs and those involved in illegal drug markets continue to be a major contributing factor to prison overcrowding globally (see Imprisonment and prison overcrowding). For decades, punitive drug laws that impose disproportionate criminal sanctions have led to the imprisonment of millions of people worldwide for drug […]
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Laws that criminalise acts associated with poverty and survival are a key driver of rising prison populations and overcrowding. Around the world, the poorest and most marginalised members of society continue to be over-represented in prisons and criminal justice systems. Many countries continue to enforce laws that lead to imprisonment for acts associated with poverty […]
Event
Side event at the 65th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, organised by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Ghana to the UN (Vienna), Penal Reform International, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum, and the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status. The criminalization of people who use drugs […]
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The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, published in July 2019, documents at least 410,000 children detained in remand centres and prisons every year, with an estimated 1 million children held every year in police custody. The age at which children can be held criminally responsible (minimum age of criminal responsibility – ‘MCAR’) […]
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Around 30 percent of the prison population worldwide is made up of pre-trial detainees not yet convicted of a crime. Many are held due to lack of alternatives or because they cannot afford to pay a bail fee. Pre-trial detention undermines the chance of a fair trial and the rule of law. The majority of […]
Briefing
The African Child Policy Forum and Defence for Children International held a global conference in Kampala on 7-8 November 2011 to highlight the destructive impact on deprivation of liberty for children. The conference highlighted the critical importance of access to justice for children in Africa, whose rights are frequently denied and violated. The conference documents summarise […]
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Report
From 2011-2013, PRI’s Middle East and North Africa office ran a regional programme in six countries to promote the humane and fair treatment of vulnerable people in conflict with the law. The programme was funded by the Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency (SIDA). Evaluated in Summer 2014, this impact evaluation assesses the following three intended […]
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Children in detention are one of the most at-risk groups in terms of exposure to violence and ill-treatment. PRI research in Central Asia in 2014 found that significant numbers of children in conflict with the law reported being treated cruelly, badly or violently by police or closed institution staff (68 per cent in Kazakhstan said they were […]
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