Between 2007 and 2010 ICPS worked in partnership with the federal government and two NGOs in Argentina to help with preparations for the implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Convention against Torture (OPCAT).
In December 2002, following the election of new government, ICPS accepted an invitation to become involved in a project to improve the performance of prison managers in the state of Sao Paulo in implementing the international standards on human rights for prisoners and staff. The project was sponsored by the Ministry of Justice and other partners working with ICPS were the Centre for the Study of Public Security and Citizenship based in Rio de Janeiro and the Centre for Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Wales.
Between 2001 and March 2003 ICPS worked in partnership with the Chilean Ministry of Justice, the Gendarmería de Chile, the British Embassy and the British Council on a prison reform project funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which formed part of a wider programme of criminal justice reform initiated by the Government of Chile.