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Work with the World Health Organisation Europe

Developing Sound Policies
Prison Health
24/10/2003
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ICPS

WHO Europe is the main intergovernmental organisation for action on all health matters in the region and at the time was particularly influential among the governments of the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia through its regional headquarters in Copenhagen. Building on the achievements of the OSI funded project ICPS began to work closely with WHO Europe and its partners in the Health in Prison Project (HiPP) to bring a concern for prison health issues into the mainstream of WHO thinking.

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¿Los presos como enemigos o como ciudadanos? - la responsabilidad del Estado

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30/08/2003
Author: 
Vivien Stern
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Humanity in Prison: Questions of definition and audit

Developing Sound Policies
Prison management
02/06/2003
Author: 
Andrew Coyle

As a further element of analysis into the way prisons are managed and prisoners are treated ICPS sought to open up a debate about how what became known as the “outputs” of imprisonment should be measured. Since the 1990s the Prison Service of England and Wales has laid great emphasis on establishing standards for what goes on inside prisons and it developed a sophisticated auditing process. However, these audits tended to focus on features which could be easily measured.

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Prison health and public health

Developing Sound Policies
Prison Health
13/03/2003
Author: 
ICPS

Throughout 2002 and 2003 the Open Society Institute (OSI) funded the efforts of ICPS to support a mechanism capable of galvanising governments, non-governmental organisations and donors to make a political and financial commitment to improving health in prisons in countries of the former Soviet Union. The primary objective of the project was to improve public health by:

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ICPS Annual Report 2003

Report
Annual Reports
01/01/2003
Author: 
ICPS
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Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners

Developing Sound Policies
Prison management
02/07/2002
Author: 
ICPS

In 1997 a Social Exclusion Unit was set up within the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom Government. The name of the unit was somewhat misleading since what its work actually focussed on social inclusion and how to achieve it for all citizens.

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ICPS Annual Report 2002

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Annual Reports
30/01/2002
Author: 
ICPS

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