Training
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
Report
PRI and the Swedish Institute co-hosted a conference which took place in Alexandria, Egypt, in May 2008. Eminent guest speakers and participants were invited from across the Arab region. The central objective of the conference was to consolidate the prospects of a moratorium on the death penalty in those countries in the Middle East and […]
Languages: Arabic, 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
Model for Reform
Eighty delegates from Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, representing state institutions, law enforcement bodies, academic circles and civil society organisations, were invited by PRI to meet in Gomel, Republic of Belarus from 11 to 13 October 2007 to discuss problems relating to the execution of criminal punishments for women. The Gomel Declaration on the […]
Languages: English, Russian
Briefing
This briefing examines the use of life imprisonment worldwide, including the increasing trend of life imprisonment without the possibility of release, or life without parole (LWOP). Emerging trends indicate an increase in the number of offences carrying the sanction of life imprisonment, a greater prevalence of indeterminate sentencing, a reduction in the use of parole, […]
Languages: English, French, Russian
Report
A Rare and Arbitrary Fate: Conviction for Murder, the Mandatory Death Penalty and the Reality of Homicide in Trinidad and Tobago is a statistical study of reported murders and people indicted for murder between 1998 and 2002. It was researched and written by Roger Hood and Florence Seemungal from the Centre of Criminology, University of […]
Languages: English
Training
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
Report
This is the final declaration from a regional conference organised by PRI, the Arab Institute of Human Rights and the Royal Commission on Human Rights, held in Amman, Jordan, in 2002.
Languages: French
Model for Reform
Document published in French and English.
Languages: French