In May 2013, PRI’s Policy Director Andrea Huber represented PRI at an expert meeting convened by University of Chicago Law School, to provide guidance and feedback for a thematic report by Professor Manjoo on why women are in prison around the world, the conditions of such incarceration, and its consequences. Read our contribution to the […]
PRI Board Member and Professor of Comparative and International Penal Law at Nottingham University (UK), Dirk van Zyl Smit, discusses the human rights implications of sentencing someone to life imprisonment without parole, and the significant cases and debates currently being heard in the US and in Europe which may have an impact on the application […]
Following a landmark ruling by Uganda’s Supreme Court in 2009, which found mandatory death sentences to be unconstitutional and declared that serving at least three years on death row amounted to cruel and inhuman punishment, a number of death row prisoners had their sentences to life or long-term sentences. However, many remain, with an estimated […]
PRI Board Member Maria Eugenia Hofer is interviewed on the Chilean current affairs programme Conectados on prison conditions in Chile and other Latin American countries and on the advantages of alternatives to imprisonment.
The three-minute animation provides a basic overview of the application of the death penalty in the Middle East and North African region. This 2012 animation “The Final Request” was produced under the EU funded project ‘Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty and Alternatives that Respect International Human Rights Standards’. The contents of this documentary are […]
This 2012 documentary film ‘Behind Bars’ was produced under the EU funded project ‘Progressive Abolition of the Death Penalty and Alternatives that Respect International Human Rights Standards’. The film reflects the application of life sentence, conditions of lifers and long sentenced prisoners and the State’s attitude towards these offenders in the countries of the South […]
(2012) PRI interviews one of Nigeria’s leading experts on penal reform, Olawale Fapohunda. Olawale is Deputy Secretary General of PRI, Managing Partner of Legal Resources Consortium based in Lagos and was recently appointed Secretary, Presidential Commission on Reform of the Administration for Justice in Nigeria. In this interview Olawale discusses the obstacles to penal reform […]
(2012) PRI interviews Juliet Lyon, Secretary General of PRI and Director of the leading UK prison reform charity, the Prison Reform Trust. In this interview Juliet discusses what began her interest in penal reform issues, why she joined the board of PRI and how the experience of penal reform in the UK can influence and […]
https://vimeo.com/41284860 (2012) PRI interviews David Daubney, Chairperson of PRI’s Board. David has recently retired as General Counsel, Criminal Law Policy and Coordinator of the Sentencing Reform Team, in the Policy Sector of Justice Canada. He was previously a member of the Canadian parliament where he chaired the Standing Committee on Justice. He also chaired the […]
Фильм повествует нам на примере главного героя о проблемах, с которыми сталкиваются сегодня приговоренные к пожизненному лишению свободы. В съемках фильма приняли участие известный правозащитник Анара Ибраева и эксперт в сфере уголовного правосудия Нарине Рштуни.