Training
This pack provides information and material about how community service has developed as an alternative to imprisonment in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, and will be both of interest and practical use to individuals and organisations in other low income countries who want to develop similar policies. The pack includes extracts from legislation, policy documents and […]
Languages: English
Submission
Falling through the Cracks, PRI’s submission to the 19th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, briefs the Committee on the difficulties facing children of imprisoned parents in Africa, and urges it to consider drafting a General Comment on Article 30 of the African Charter which would […]
Languages: English, French
Submission
PRI’s statement to the 126th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Kampala, Uganda in April 2012 focused on the overuse of imprisonment. PRI also gave a short statement to the 3rd Committee on the issue of access to health as a basic right for women and girls in prison.
Languages: English
Report
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It represents an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity. It is irrevocable, and where criminal justice systems are open to error or discrimination, the death penalty will inevitably be inflicted on the innocent. In many countries that retain the death penalty there is a […]
Languages: English
Report
Between December 2010 and April 2012 PRI conducted an 18 month project in Tanzania to support multi- agency monitoring of places of detention of Children. With the financial support of UNICEF Tanzania PRI worked with local agencies to develop monitoring tools and an IT based system to collect, collate and analyse the results of monitoring visits conducted by mandated […]
Languages: English
Report
Klaas de Jonge, PRI’s first regional director in the Great Lakes region, has written his own analysis and commentary of PRI’s Gacaca process. The views expressed in his commentary are personal rather than those of PRI. PRI is keen to hear your views about its publication Eight Years On…A Record of Gacaca Monitoring in Rwanda, […]
Languages: English, French
Report
This report is a follow-up to Research Report No.10 published in July 2007 on property offence cases committed during the genocide. In that report, PRI noted the marked discrepancy between the theory of reparation and current socio-economic conditions in Rwanda.
Languages: English
Model for Reform
This book is a compilation of Declarations, Plans of Action and ECOSOC Resolutions which make logical, practical, humane and cost-effective recommendations for penal reform, written specifically in and for the African context. Where implemented, these can reduce the unnecessary use of imprisonment and improve access to justice, while responding to the special needs of those […]
Languages: English, French
Report
This report focuses on the cases involving property offences committed during the genocide. Such cases are complex due to the varying degrees of responsibility: did the perpetrators engage in the looting of an abandoned home as a means of survival or were they involved in the organised and systematic destruction of property to eliminate all […]
Languages: English, French
Multimedia
https://vimeo.com/36338039 Published in 2005 Available in English 18 minutes duration Food ration is the main cost after staff salaries in most prisons in Africa. Since 1998, the Malawi Prison Service has been developing prison farms in partnership with PRI, improving prison conditions and self suffiency. Seeds of Freedom demonstrates the benefits that can be achieved […]
Languages: English