Resources listing

Training

Making Standards Work: an international handbook on good prison practice

This handbook presents an overview of the UN rules on prison conditions and treatment of prisoners and explains their value and meaning for prison policy and practice, in order to promote further implementation of recognised international rules. It has been written for those working with prisoners or responsible for their care and treatment: prison policy-makers, prison […]

Languages: Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Russian, Spanish

Model for Reform

A New Agenda For Penal Reform

In April 1999, representatives from fifty countries in all five continents met in Surrey, England to consider A New Approach for Penal Reform in a New Century. Government ministers and officials, parliamentarians, judges and representatives of international, regional and national nongovernmental organisations concerned with penal reform and human rights discussed the role of the criminal […]

Languages: English, Farsi, French, Pashto, Spanish