The CEP and EuroPris held a joint expert meeting on foreign national prisoners on 3 October 2013.

A Special Interest Group on this topic has worked under the umbrella of CEP for many years. As a result of the closer cooperation between CEP and EuroPris it was proposed to revigorate this group under a joint umbrella. Participants from probation and prison services as well as non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) and universities active in the field of foreign nationals will look into the needs of both sectors and define new aims and objectives for the future work of the Special Interest Group. In this discussion the prison sector will be represented by experts from the Netherlands’ National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), the Austrian and Norwegian Prison Service’s and the University of Nottingham (previously involved in the Council of Europe Recommendations on Foreign Prisoners).

The report of the Special Interest Group meeting can be downloaded here.