Model for Reform
PRI and partners presented their final report on research carried out into the treatment and conditions of prisoners serving life sentences in the South Caucasus, in a meeting in Baku on 12th February 2009. The work was carried out within a broader EU-funded project ‘Global Action to Abolish the Death Penalty’, aimed at encouraging the […]
Languages: English
Model for Reform
This book is a compilation of Declarations, Plans of Action and ECOSOC Resolutions which make logical, practical, humane and cost-effective recommendations for penal reform, written specifically in and for the African context. Where implemented, these can reduce the unnecessary use of imprisonment and improve access to justice, while responding to the special needs of those […]
Languages: English, French
Report
PRI carried out a series of interviews in 2006-2007 with prison personnel dealing with lifers in five Russian penal colonies. The interviews are available in Russian.
Languages: Russian
Briefing
This briefing examines the use of life imprisonment worldwide, including the increasing trend of life imprisonment without the possibility of release, or life without parole (LWOP). Emerging trends indicate an increase in the number of offences carrying the sanction of life imprisonment, a greater prevalence of indeterminate sentencing, a reduction in the use of parole, […]
Languages: English, French, Russian
Training
This compilation of human rights standards concerning the administration of justice was produced by the United National Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) in collaboration with PRI and the International Centre for Prison Studies. It is one component of the four-part publication, Human Rights in Prisons, series No. 11 in the OHCHR […]
Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian
Training
This manual is a resource for those who deliver training and workshops on human rights in prisons. It explores the fundamentals of good prison management, focusing specifically on international standards for the treatment of prisoners and the special needs of vulnerable categories of prisoner.
Languages: English, Farsi, French, Spanish
Model for Reform
Document published in French and English.
Languages: French
Briefing
In an important step towards reforming prison policies in Kenya, a Roundtable Conference on Prison Policy was held in Nyeri, Kenya, from 14-16 October 2001, organised by the Government of Kenya and PRI with the support of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom. This briefing provides a summary of the conference proceedings […]
Languages: English
Model for Reform
The Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights Seminar took place from 12-14 September 2000 in Belize City, Belize, and was attended by delegates from the Commonwealth region and beyond. Important topics addressed at the conference include legal aid and access to justice, evolving international attitudes towards the death penalty, gender and equal treatment under the law and […]
Languages: English
Model for 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