Resources listing

Report

Healthcare in the Penitentiary System/სამედიცინო მომსახურეობა პენიტენციურ სისტემაში – Desk Research/სამაგიდე კვლევა

The publication has been produced by Rehabilitation Initiative of Vulnerable Groups (Author: Merab Kavtaradze) within the framework of the EU funded project “Monitoring Government’s Commitments and Promoting Penal Reforms through the Engagement of CSOs” which is implemented by Penal Reform International South Caucasus Regional Office. The studies and reports of 2014-2017 discuss number of issues […]

Languages: English, Georgian

Report

Prison Staff/ციხის პერსონალი – Desk research/სამაგიდე კვლევა

The publication has been produced by Rehabilitation Initiative of Vulnerable Groups (Author: Natalia Tsagareli) within the framework of the EU funded project “Monitoring Government’s Commitments and Promoting Penal Reforms through the Engagement of CSOs” which is implemented by Penal Reform International South Caucasus Regional Office. In order to ensure the optimal management of the prison, […]

Languages: English, Georgian

Annual Report

PRI’s Annual Report 2017

PRI’s Annual Report 2017 outlines the impact of our work and achievements over the past year. Read the report online or download it below: Highlights in 2017 included: Publication of Global Prison Trends 2017 – the third in our annual flagship series – which highlighted the links between criminal justice and the Sustainable Development Goals. Our Middle East and […]

Languages: English

Report

Global Prison Trends 2018

Global Prison Trends 2018 is the fourth edition in PRI’s annual flagship Global Prison Trends series, which identifies topical developments and challenges in criminal justice and prison policy and practice. It is published in collaboration with the Thailand Institute of Justice, and features a foreword by the Rt Hon Helen Clark, Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, Former Prime Minister of […]

Languages: English

Briefing

Human Rights during Detention and the Situation in Georgia

This factsheet “Human Rights during Police Detention and the Situation in Georgia” includes analysis of legislation and practices as regards police detention in Georgia, including safeguards and violations and relevant statistics. The document discusses all the challenges and human rights violations bringing concrete cases as evidence during administrative detention as well as during detention under […]

Languages: Georgian

Report

Evaluation: Reducing torture and ill-treatment through strengthening preventive monitoring mechanisms in Georgia and Armenia

This mid-term evaluation reports on progress achieved in PRI’s project in the South Caucasus on strengthening preventive monitoring mechanisms, which is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Netherlands. The project began in October 2016 and is being implemented over a period of 21 months. A summary of the mid-term evaluation has also […]

Languages: English

Annual Report

PRI’s Annual Report 2016

PRI’s Annual Report 2016 outlines the impact of our work and achievements over the past year. Highlights in 2016 included: Continued global promotion of the Nelson Mandela Rules (the revised Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of prisoners), with our regional offices holding workshops and training on the rules in a number of countries. In collaboration with the UK […]

Languages: English

Report

Global Prison Trends 2017

PRI has launched its annual flagship publication, Global Prison Trends 2017, at the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Global Prison Trends 2017 is the third edition in our annual Global Prison Trends series, which identifies topical developments and challenges in criminal justice and prison policy and practice. It is published in collaboration with the Thailand […]

Languages: English

Model for Reform

On probation – models of good practice for alternatives to prison

This resource pack aims to provide guidance about how non-custodial sanctions and probation can be established in countries which do not have them and extended in those countries which do. It draws both on the available academic and other literature available, together with PRI’s experience of working with government partners, most recently in Eastern Europe, […]

Languages: English

Briefing

Essex paper 3: Initial guidance on the interpretation and implementation of the Nelson Mandela Rules

This guidance on the revised UN Nelson Mandela Rules is ‎based on the deliberations of a meeting of experts – known informally as the ‘Essex expert group’ – organised by Penal Reform International and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex in Colchester, UK, on 7-8 April 2016. The paper consists of six chapters covering: Dignity Prison […]

Languages: English