Multimedia
Sentencing trends … prison technology – opportunities and threats … architectural design and offender rehabilitation. A special podcast to accompany our new Global Prison Trends report. Guests include: Alison Hannah (PRI Executive Director) Bryan Stevenson (Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and PRI Board Member) Dr Marayca López (US corrections analyst and justice planner) Rob Allen (criminal […]
Languages: English
Briefing
This article outlines aspects of discrimination faced by female suspects, defendants and prisoners in criminal justice systems, their number, profile and characteristics, and the offences they are typically charged with or convicted for. It covers certain key conditions in detention as well as programmes in place for rehabilitation and reintegration. It draws on data, country […]
Languages: English
Report
This report is designed to describe key global trends in the use and practice of imprisonment and to identify some of the pressing challenges facing states that wish to organise their penitentiary system in accordance with international norms and standards. Topics include: Prison populations and rates of imprisonment Prison management Prison regimes New technologies Criminal justice, social policy and […]
Languages: English
Multimedia
Although very few women commit violent crimes, evidence shows that a large number of women in prison have experienced physical and sexual violence themselves, as a child, an adult and often both. In 2012, Dr Lillian Artz, Director of the Gender Health and Justice Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, conducted a small […]
Languages: English
Submission
This statement will be delivered by PRI at the OSCE’s 2014 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, during the dedicated session to ‘Violence against women belonging to vulnerable groups’ on 26 September 2014. PRI highlights that the majority of women in detention are convicted of non-violent crimes that are linked to poverty, and those convicted of violent crimes are often victims […]
Languages: English
Submission
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) are developing “Draft Basic Principles and Guidelines on Remedies and Procedures on the Right of Anyone Deprived of His or Her Liberty by Arrest or Detention to Bring Proceedings Before Court”, pursuant to Resolution 20/16. They will be presented to the Human Rights Council in September 2015. In September 2014, PRI […]
Languages: English
Report
This research report is based on a survey of 28 and 32 per cent of the female prison population in Jordan and Tunisia respectively, carried out by PRI in December 2013 and February 2014. It also includes an analysis of statistics received from criminal justice authorities in the two countries. By providing facts and figures, the report […]
Languages: Arabic, English
Briefing
This short guide provides an illustrated summary, section by section, of the first ever General Comment by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on Children of incarcerated and imprisoned parents and primary caregivers (Article 30 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child). It […]
Languages: Arabic, English, French
Annual Report
Our 2013 annual report – Working towards fair and effective criminal justice: the PRI way – is designed to give readers insight into how we achieve impact, focusing on highlights from our research work, our international advocacy, the technical assistance we provide at a national level, our training courses and resources, and our partnerships with […]
Languages: English
Multimedia
This is a recording of a side-event Human Rights of Women in Detention that PRI co-organised, with DIGNITY – Danish Institute against Torture at the 26th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 17 June 2014. The event was co-sponsored by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Permanent Missions of Denmark and Chile. […]
Languages: English