Not oficially, but the levels of satisfaction and resilience are something of concern for this Agency. For instance, all measures in the field of gender perspective are aimed at promoting integration and resilience amongst inmates and staff. All measures for young inmates are also aimed at facilitating their resilience. Thus, even altough not oficial studies have been carried out, resilience remains a topic absolutely relevant.

No such study was carried out within the Slovak prison service.

The Latvian Prison Administration did not carry out a resilience study on prison staff and/or on prisoners.

Belgium was partner in the LEADCOR project concerning work related stress in correctional settings, because working in a correctional setting is a very stressful occupation, with physical and psychological effects on prison staff. It is proved that prison-staff has an increased risk of burnout due to the extreme tensions between custodial responsibilities and their treatment functions (e.g. helping inmates’ rehabilitation). The LEADCOR Project has assessed the feelings of stress and burnout of staff (e.g. prison governors, penitentiary agents, Psychosocial personnel, and so on…) within some pilot prisons in Belgium (Merksplas, Beveren and Antwerp) and partner countries (such as Romania, Portugal and Germany). Beside this topic, also leadership competencies of all kinds of leadership functions within the same prisons have been assessed, because it’s proven that leadership competencies are important to reduce feelings of stress and burnout amongst staff. Therefore the LEADCOR Project aims to reduce occupational stress levels inside prisons by enhancing the transversal skills (such as leadership and stress management) of prison management and frontline staff. The project focus on the competencies development of correctional staff in assessing and developing the leadership competencies. Management and frontline staff of different prisons had the opportunity to follow a short term staff training, organized by IPS (Innovative Prison Systems). Also a LEADCOR leadership boardgame and an E-Learning course were developed for this goal.For more information, [email protected], the CEO of IPS. No resilience studies concerning prisoners were carried out.

No Latvian Prison Administration does not carry out a resilience study on prison staff and/or on prisoners.

The danish prison and probation had so far not done resilience study´s on staff members.

The Directorate for the Prison System and Probation of the Republic of Croatia did not conduct research related to the psychological resilience of prison staff or prisoners to crisis situations caused by major accidents or natural disasters.

Although HMPPS have not conducted any relevant resilience studies perse we do invest heavily in Business Continuity and contingency planning at both the local and national level. We have an established Business Continuity and Resilience Team and disaster planning in place to enable HMPPS to continue to function with as little disruption as possible to the delivery of its core business. We focus on the five key resilience risks to our organisation: • Management of staff • Building premises • Data and information technology (IT) infrastructure • Utilities • Third-party suppliers In addition to the five core risks, we are also prepared for the following specific risks: • Seasonal Illness preparedness • Fuel Shortage • National Power Outage (NPO) The HMPPS Business Continuity and Resilience Team actively horizon scan to anticipate future risks that could impact on the delivery of our core business. The team works to recognise and control known risks and build capability to respond to unpredictable threats. The team also write national level continuity plans in conjunction with wider Government and ensure our organisation has the foundations in place to respond to nationally and internationally impacting events when necessary.

In the Netherlands we haven’t done research concerning resilience among prisoners nor prison staff. The focus in the Netherlands is more on the prevention of ‘detention damage’ in general.