International Prison News Digest Issue 23
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.
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Donate to WPBInternational Centre for Prison Studies to merge with Institute for Criminal Policy Research
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 News Digest Issue 22
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 News Digest Issue 21
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 contributes to British Academy report
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 deliver human rights training courses in Libya
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 in pre-trial detention worldwide, new report shows
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. ICPS meeting with Chinese Vice Minister
On Wednesday 21 May, Peter Bennett, Director of ICPS, and Mike Newell, Associate, were invited to the UK Ministry of Justice, National Offender Management Service, to meet a high-level delegation from the Peoples’ Republic of China led by the Vice Minister, Zhang Sujun, and accompanied by senior officials from the Bureau of Prison Administration.
ICPS contributes to WHO Europe Guide on Prisons and Health
WHO Europe has today published the second edition of its highly successful Guide on Prisons and Health. Once again this includes a chapter by ICPS Trustee Professor Andrew Coyle on “Standards in prison health: the prisoner as a patient.”
ICPS was a founding member of the WHO Prison Health Network and continues to have close links with its Health in Prisons Project.
The Guide is available from the WHO Europe website: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-determinants/prisons-and-health/publications/2014/prisons-and-health
ICPS News Digest Issue 20
ICPS has produced the twentieth issue of its News Digest, which is a selection of news items from around the world on prison and the use of imprisonment.