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ICPS News Digest Issue 20: March - April 2014
Core Publications
International Prison News Digest
22/05/2014
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Administração Prisional: uma abordagem em direitos humanos. Manual para servidores prisionais (Brazilian Portuguese)
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A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff
21/05/2014
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The United Kingdom’s National Preventive Mechanism: Five Years On
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Preface to Spanish version of Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement
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ICPS News Digest Issue 19: January - February 2014
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ICPS News Digest Issue 18: November-December 2013
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International Profile of Women's Prisons
Developing Sound Policies
Other Work
02/07/2008
In July 2008 ICPS completed an International Profile of Women's Prisons and the provision of healthcare for women in prison, with ICPS Research Associate Helen Fair leading the research.
The review was jointly commissioned by the National Offender Management Service and Offender Health Unit in the Department of Health to inform the future design of women's prisons and support the development of policy on the provision of healthcare in women's prisons.
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ICPS contributes to 12th UN Crime Congress
Working With Others
UN
20/04/2010
Then ICPS Director Rob Allen participated in the UN Crime Congress in Salvador, Brazil from 12th -17th April. He was the scientific rapporteur of the Congress Workshop on Best Practices in Prisons and also made a presentation at the Workshop on Reducing Overcrowding. He also spoke at two ancillary meetings on Pre-Trial Detention (organised by the Open Society Justice Initiative) and on inspection of places of detention.
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Council of Europe Code of Ethics for Prison Staff
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Council of Europe
03/04/2012
At the conclusion of their 15th conference in September 2009 the Heads of European Prison Administrations invited the Council of Europe to consider the need for a Code of Ethics for Prison Staff. This recommendation was taken up by the Council’s Penological Committee, which commissioned Professor Andrew Coyle to prepare a concept paper on the need for such a Code. Following receipt of the concept paper, the Penological Committee appointed Andrew Coyle as its expert to draft a Code of Ethics.
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Restorative Prison Project
Working With Others
UK
02/05/2004
Between 2000 and 2004 ICPS developed the Restorative Prison Project which set out to discover the extent to which restorative principles could be used in the prison setting as a means of assisting prisoners to resettle into their communities after release. The project, which was funded by the Northern Rock Foundation, was overseen by an advisory group chaired by Sir Graham Melmoth, then CEO of the Co-operative Wholesale Society.
The project identified four key elements which might be used to assist the process of resettlement:
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