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A cross-European community of prison professionals who collaborate, cooperate, and network together to enhance prison practice.
Accessible: Ensuring that all prison professionals have easy access to resources, knowledge, and support.
Reliable: Supporting members and focusing on quality and integrity within the community.
Cooperative: Promoting a mutually collaborative culture among prison professionals.
Phil Copple, Director General of Operations | His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service
The European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services (EuroPris) is a non-political, non-governmental organisation founded in 2011. The initiative to establish EuroPris was taken during the Swedish EU Presidency in 2009 and was brought forward by the European countries of the International Roundtable for Correctional Excellence.
Membership of the Association is open to those European national Prison and Correctional Administrations which are able and willing to support the agreed aims and objectives of the Association. Public institutions or organisations in the Council of Europe region, which provide prison or correctional services on a legal or statutory basis can become members of EuroPris.
EuroPris brings together practitioners in the prisons’ arena with the specific intention of promoting ethical and rights-based imprisonment, exchanging information and providing expert assistance to support this agenda. The organisation exists to improve co-operation among European Prison and Correctional Services, with the aim of improving the lives of prisoners and their families, enhancing public safety and security; reducing re-offending; and advancing professionalism in the corrections’ field.