Briefing
PRI Central Asia media coverage June 2012
A summary of the media coverage of PRI in Central Asia. In Russian.
Languages: Russian
Resources listing
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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
Report
Evaluation of PRI’s Death Penalty Project 2010-2012
Between February and May 2012, PRI worked with an independent evaluator, Mr Paul English, to conduct an outcome- and impact-based evaluation of the entire project (1 February 2010-31 March 2012) by assessing and analysing the project’s achievements and results, in light of overall programme objectives and performance indicators. The outcome of the evaluation will guide […]
Languages: English
Training
Index of Paralegal Services in Africa
Over the past 15 years, paralegals have become an increasingly important part of the criminal justice system in developing countries. As well as providing legal information and basic legal advice to people in conflict with the law, some paralegal services also provide food and medical supplies to people in detention and a presence at police […]
Languages: English
Report
Mechanisms for the prevention of torture in nine CIS states: synthesis report
This research report assesses the legislative framework, conditions of detention and the development of monitoring mechanisms, with a particular focus on the establishment of civil society monitoring mechanisms and the National Preventive Mechanisms under OPCAT, in nine states of the former Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijian, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine. The research […]
Languages: English, Russian
Report
Alternatives to imprisonment in East Africa: trends and challenges
Prison overcrowding is a serious problem in East Africa. The occupancy rate of prisons in Tanzania is over 145 percent and in Kenya and Uganda it is over 200 percent. The congestion is caused in large part by the excessive use of pre-trial detention: approximately half of those detained at any one time are awaiting […]
Languages: English
Training
Making Community Service Work: A Resource Pack from East Africa
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
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
Briefing
What can parliamentarians do to work on penal reform?
Short guide for parliamentarians around the world on positive actions they can take to further criminal justice and penal reform.
Languages: English, Russian, Spanish