Annual Report
PRI Annual Report 2012
This year’s Annual Report looks at highlights from each month in 2012, and gives an overview of the breadth and depth of PRI’s work.
Languages: English
Resources listing
Multimedia
Is there a crisis in Latin American prison systems? Interview with PRI Board Member Maria Eugenia Hofer (Spanish only)
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.
Languages: Spanish
Model for Reform
Making Law and Policy that Work
Making Law and Policy that Work is aimed at specialists and non-specialists faced with the responsibility of creating a policy and legislative framework for criminal justice and penal systems. It recognises that criminal justice reform requires expertise and experience in a variety of disciplines which are rarely embodied in one person. It takes into account the […]
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Submission
Joint submission on the safety of prisoners, November 2012
Joint submission with the Friends World Committee for Consultation.
Languages: English
Submission
Statement to the OSCE HDIM, September 2012: Monitoring places of detention and the role of preventive monitoring
The statement stresses that a combination of preventive work by National Preventive Mechanisms (looking at more general risk factors) and reactive monitoring by civil society (taking up and reporting on individual cases of ill-treatment) is both necessary and ideal for increasing the effectiveness of monitoring and bringing an end to the practice of torture and […]
Languages: English
International Standard
Key standards and norms on conditions in detention and the treatment of detainees, including health and solitary confinement
Key standards and norms covering conditions in detention and the treatment of detainees include: General International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights UN Convention on the Rights of the Child UN Convention against Torture UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities UN Standard Minimum Rules for […]
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Submission
Joint NGO statement to the Crime Commission, April 2012, on the review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules
This statement to the 21st Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was issued under standing agenda item 8 on use and application of UN standards and norms in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice, including their use and application to be discussed on 27 April 2012 in Vienna. […]
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish
Report
From the ‘land of incarceration’ to a society with minimal use of pain: Finnish experience of reducing the prison population
A report on the Finnish experience of reducing experience of reducing the prison population. In Russian.
Languages: Russian
Submission
Independent experts’ meeting on the review of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the ‘Essex Paper’)
The ‘Essex Paper’ is the outcome of an independent experts’ meeting on the revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (SMR). It was submitted by PRI and Essex University to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime ahead of the 2nd Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting (IEGM) on the in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 11-13 […]
Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Submission
Joint statement to the Crime Commission on targeted revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules, April 2013
This joint statement on the revision of the UN Standard Minimum Rules was submitted to the Crime Commission on 15 April 2013 (E/CN.15/2013/NGO/3) by PRI and: American Civil Liberties Union Amnesty International Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales Conectas Direitos Humanos Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care […]
Languages: English