Annual Report
Annual report 2025
PRI's Annual Report 2025 highlights our work worldwide, with evidence-based programmes advancing fair, effective and human rights-based criminal justice systems.
Languages: English
Resources listing
Report
Non‑custodial sanctions and measures in Africa: A comparative study
A pioneering comparative study examining the use of non-custodial sanctions and measures across Africa.
Languages: English
Guidelines
Prison work: A guide to regulated and rehabilitative-based approaches – informed by lived experience
Although many people in prison undertake some form of work, most prison work remains informal and unregulated. Informed by lived experience, this guide sets out a human rights-based approach to prison work.
Languages: English
Report
Global Prison Trends 2026
Global Prison Trends 2026 is the twelfth edition of the flagship annual publication providing a data-driven analysis of key developments in prison systems worldwide.
Languages: English
Report
Alternatives to the death penalty: Information pack
This publication provides an overview of sentencing options used as alternatives to the death penalty, with a particular focus on life and long-term imprisonment.
Languages: English
Guidelines
Deaths in prison: A guide for detention monitors
This guide supports detention monitors in preventing, investigating and responding to deaths in custody. It offers practical guidance grounded in international standards, with recommendations to strengthen oversight, improve data collection, and uphold the right to life in detention settings.
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Brochure
A five-year Strategy: Criminal justice reform with human rights at its core
PRI launches a new five-year strategy for 2024-28 focusing on rehabilitation, human rights and reducing criminalisation.
Languages: English
Public Statement
Recommendations adopted at regional conference on justice-affected women in Africa
From 18-20 October 2023, 257 delegates representing 7 countries from across Africa convened for a regional conference: ‘Unlocking Barriers: Rights of Women in the Criminal Justice System in Africa’. The first of its kind, the conference considered recommendations in an open and collaborative forum, which identified the challenges, strategies and comparative jurisprudence on the progressive […]
Languages: English
Report
Implementation of the National Strategy for the Demilitarisation of Prisons in the Central African Republic
In January 2019, the Central African Republic (CAR) approved a “National Strategy for the Demilitarisation of Prison Establishments“, developed in partnership with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and Penal Reform International (PRI). Following its adoption, the National Demilitarisation Strategy was incorporated into the Justice Sector Policy 2020-2024. […]
Languages: English, French
Event
Event: High Level Event on implementation of the UN Common Position on Incarceration
Organised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Permanent Missions of Austria, Costa Rica, Colombia, Canada, Luxembourg, South Africa, and Switzerland; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Department of Peace Operations; Penal Reform International (with support from the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation); International Commission […]
Languages: English