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The Criminal Justice Platform launched Summer Courses in Barcelona 4-7 July 2017. Expert practitioners ran courses for colleagues from across Europe. The aim was to ‘examine key practice issues, inspire new thinking, promote cross-fertilization and build new networks to improve services and practice in prisons, probation and restorative justice’. These presentations and reports available here.
The Summer Newsflash from July is out! Find out about the upcoming activities in the next months in the Summer Newsflash. To view past EuroPris Newsletters click here
The EuroPris Newsletter May 2017 edition is out now! Read the featured article from Dr. Sharon Shalev, an independent expert from Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford, New Zealand: Solitary Confinement and Restraint Practices, and more news and events in the European Correctional arena in the EuroPris May 2017 Newsletter. To view past EuroPris Newsletters click here.
EuroPris in cooperation with ICPA and CEP organised on 15-17th May 2017 the second ‘Technology in Corrections: Challenges for the Future’ and was hosted by the Czech Prison and Probation Services. The aim of this conference was to challenge the private and academic sector to develop solutions in the field of digital technology for a number of issues Read More
The report examines the use of seclusion and restraint across different detention contexts in New Zealand. It is based on visits to seventeen different places of detention including prisons, health and disability units, a youth justice residence, a children’s care and protection residence, and police custody suites, which took place between 26 October 2016 and Read More
The Comité Régional Olympique et sportif de la Côte d’Azur (Olympic and Sportive Regional Committee of Côte d’Azur) is inviting detainees to their famous sport event of the French Penal System called “Jeux Pénitentiaires 2018” (Penal Games 2018). The Penal Games 2018 will take place in Côte d’Azur (Saint-Raphaël), and it will allow detainees to be Read More
On 23rd May, EuroPris was invited to the plenary meeting of the Committee on the Operation of European Conventions on Co-operation in Criminal Matters (PC-OC) to present its European Prison Information System (EPIS). This system, which provides a base platform for the collection and dissemination of prison related information, continues to develop so that it Read More
On 30 March 2017, EuroPris organized a one day workshop on Forecasting in Ghent, Belgium, that was hosted by the Belgian Prison Service. The Forecasting workshop is organized bi-annually. This was the third Forecasting workshop since 2012. There were 31 participants from 15 countries that joined the workshop. Presentations and discussions were on topics such Read More
EuroPris organized in cooperation with ICPA and the Belgian Prisons Service the 1st International Correctional Research Symposium in March in Ghent, Belgium. The main theme of the symposium was ‘Enhancing Comparability and Understanding’. There were 116 professionals from 36 countries that attended the event. This Symposium was a great opportunity to learn more about the way Read More
Presentations and notes from the Seminar on Victims’ Directive that was held in Brussels, Belgium on 23 February are now available here.
With financial support from the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Commission