Multimedia
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 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 with the Friends World Committee for Consultation.
Languages: English
Submission
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 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
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
A report on the Finnish experience of reducing experience of reducing the prison population. In Russian.
Languages: Russian
Submission
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
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
Submission
A short statement given by PRI at the Third Committee of the 126th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), on the issues of the specific health needs of women and girl prisoners.
Languages: English