Annual Report
Annual Report 2010
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Languages: English
Resources listing
Annual Report
Annual Report 2011
Please contact Penal Reform International at publications@penalreform.org if you would like a free paper copy.
Languages: English
Report
PRI’s work to support penitentiary reform in Ukraine
Penal Reform International’s programme to support penitentiary reform in Ukraine ended in April 2012. To see our dedicated project website in English and Ukrainian, including regular project newsletters documenting activities and achievements over the two and a half years, click here. English Ukrainian See below for a factsheet summarising the programme’s aims.
Languages: English
Report
Heuni Report: Survey of United Nations and other Best Practices in the Criminal Justice System
A comprehensive report of the workshop held at the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: Survey of United Nations and other Best Practices in the Treatment of Prisoners in the Criminal Justice System Proceedings. Held in Salvador, Brazil, on the 12-19 April 2010.
Languages: English
Report
An Assessment of Penal Legislation in Georgia
This study highlights some significant systemic shortcomings on the way to reform of penal legislation in Georgia. Discussing the themes of law making in general, criminal law and procedure, execution of imprisonment and probation, the study evaluates the hurdles to reform and concludes with recommendations. This publication was produced by PRI with the aid of […]
Languages: English, Georgian
Training
Compendium of Comparative Prison Legislation
The Compendium of Comparative Prison Legislation aims to provide legislators, government officials, prison administrators and all concerned with penal reform with positive, realistic and contemporary examples of national laws from around the world. The Compendium is structured thematically, with each chapter containing extracts from relevant international and regional standards relating to the treatment of prisoners, […]
Languages: English
Model for Reform
Africa’s recommendations for penal 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
Access to Justice in Africa and Beyond
In this book, criminal justice practitioners from around the world explore practical ways of delivering legal aid in criminal justice matters to the poorest sectors of African and other developing societies. They articulate a broad and inclusive definition of legal aid, call on governments, in partnership with civil society, to provide legal aid at all […]
Languages: English, French
Training
Human Rights and Prisons – A Compilation of Human Rights Instruments
This compilation of human rights standards concerning the administration of justice was produced by the United National Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) in collaboration with PRI and the International Centre for Prison Studies. It is one component of the four-part publication, Human Rights in Prisons, series No. 11 in the OHCHR […]
Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian
Multimedia
Community service in Africa: An alternative to imprisonment
In Africa, hundreds of thousands of people are packed into prisons that are overcrowded, dilapidated, unsanitary, inhumane and ineffective for prisoners’ rehabilitation and crime prevention. In 1992, Zimbabwe introduced Community Service. Very quickly this alternative proved itself to be more humane, less expensive and a more efficient response to crime. This film, made in 2004, […]
Languages: English