In 2017 a new expert group was formed that will work from 2017 to 2019. Participating experts are from Northern Ireland, Finland, Belgium, Turkey, England & Wales, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden and The Netherlands. The group met for the first time 25-26 September in Ghent, Belgium. During the meeting the experts had the chance to visit the Ghent Prison and the Forensic Psychiatric Centre in Ghent. Next to presentations about recent development in their Services the experts discussed: Academic research in the field of prison design; Introduction of IP solutions in operational prisons; Sustainable design and Prison design for Normalisation / The Wellbeing prison. In the coming two years the experts will draft two reports. One will be a literature review of evidence based prison design and the other report will focus on the design of female prisons.