In this prison reform programme ICPS worked alongside Penal Reform International, the Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association and the Polish prison administration to help the Kazakh authorities begin the process of change.
The broad development of a partnership programme between the Moscow pre-trial prisons (SIZOs) and the United Kingdom prison services started to take shape in the summer of 1999.
At the request of the Russian partners, work was undertaken in 2004 to disseminate the lessons learned in Moscow throughout the federal districts of Russia. This follow-up project was co-sponsored by the Global Opportunities Fund and the Ford Foundation.
Following the success of the previous work, ICPS was asked by the Head of the Russian Federal Prison Service to deliver a further project to provide training and development for the recently appointed local Human Rights Advisers throughout Russia.