Report: Review of European Prison Education Policy and Council of Europe Recommendation (89) 12 on Education in Prison

For the past three decades, the Council of Europe (COE) Recommendation (89) 12 on Prison Education have provided the principal point of reference and generally accepted standards for custodial education services. Given the time-lapse since the adoption of the Recommendation, EuroPris and the European Prison Education Association (EPEA)  decided to review the Recommendation and consider some of the principal developments in justice over the past three decades that have impacted contemporary European prison education policy. The joint EuroPris / EPEA expert group worked from 2017 to 2019 on this review on prison education.

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