More than 10.35 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world according to the latest edition of the World Prison Population List (WPPL), researched and compiled by Roy Walmsley and published on Wednesday 3 February by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, at Birkbeck, University of London.
More than 700,000 women and girls are in prison around the world, new report published by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research shows.
More than 700,000 women and girls are held in penal institutions throughout the world, according to the third edition of the World Female Imprisonment List, researched and compiled by Roy Walmsley and published by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck, University of London.
ICPS has produced the twenty fourth issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items from around the world on prison and the use of imprisonment.
ICPS has produced the twenty third issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items from around the world on prison and the use of imprisonment.
As of November 2014, the International Centre for Prison Studies is joining forces with the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), based in the School of Law of Birkbeck, University of London.
ICPS has produced the twenty second issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items from around the world on prison and the use of imprisonment.
ICPS has produced the twenty first issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items from around the world on prison and the use of imprisonment.
ICPS Trustee Professor Andrew Coyle and Associate Professor Rod Morgan have contributed to a new report published by the British Academy on 3rd July which urges that the UK stop relying so heavily on imprisonment as a form of punishment.
ICPS Associates Danny McAllister and Christine Fisher, supported by their interpreter Walid Safar, delivered four one day courses on a human rights approach to security for 70 members of staff, and a further four day course for a selected group of 9 staff in Al Jawiya Prison, Misrata, Libya. The course and the accompanying Workbook were devised and produced as part of a project to support the Libyan Judicial Police in managing their prisons and were funded by the UK Security, Justice and Defence Programme in Libya. Following the courses the Minister of Labour for Libya presented course certificates to the participants.
Close to three million people are held in pre-trial detention and other forms
of remand imprisonment throughout the world according to the second edition of
the World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List (WPTRIL), researched and compiled by
Roy Walmsley and published on 18 June by the International Centre for Prison Studies,
a partner of the University of Essex.