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In the table of recommendations and practices below, each Article of the Council of Europe Recommendation 2012 (12) on Foreign Prisoners is included. For each of these Articles, information is collected from European Prison Services giving inspiration to its members and providing practices that support the implementation of the Recommendation. The table also contains references to the practice being a national, local or regional initiative, the legal basis and budget sources.
The table can be searched by country and by Article of the Recommendation.
Countries that are not yet included are invited to submit their data and send them to [email protected].
The Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas
The Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas provides information, support and advice to Irish prisoners overseas and their families.
National
Charity
www.icpo.ie [email protected]
Italian Prisoners Abroad
Works with Italian nationals imprisoned abroad. Offers support to prisoners and their families by giving them information and useful contacts. Makes in loco visits when possible (especially in Europe) and helps the offender in the phase of re-entry in Italy.
National
Charity with statutory support
[email protected]
Fudacionmas 34
Works with Spanish nationals imprisoned abroad and their families in Spain. Uses volunteers extensively.
Works particularly with Spanish prisoners in South America
National
Charity
[email protected] & [email protected]
‘Movimiento por la Paz’.
Established group working with Spanish Consulates and other institutions. Offers advice and general information to Spanish prisoners abroad. Advises prisoners on their rights, & provides information on prison transfer applications, post sentence.
Can advise and support families in Spain who have family members imprisoned abroad.
National
Charity
[email protected]
Asociación Hispano Árabe para el Desarro’, support for Moroccan prisoners;
Established by Rachid Ismaili. Asociación Hispano Árabe para el Desarro, focuses on the cultural interests of the Moroccan community in Madrid. Since 2015 their volunteers from has been visiting Moroccan prisoners in the Madrid V11 prison. Initially their focus was on music and calligraphy but volunteers have been able to help with translation and more general support where appropriate. Also provides information, advice and support to families of Moroccan prisoners.
National though primarily in Madrid
Charity though since 2015 receiving funding from Moroccan government.
Contact Rachid Ismaili http://www.ahadc.org/index.html
Hibiscus Initiatives;
A UK charity working with refugee migrant women serving a custodial sentence, released into the UK or returned to their home country. Specialist knowledge of women prisoners from the Caribbean, West Africa and Eastern Europe.
National
Charity
[email protected]
Prisoners Abroad, UK charity caring for the welfare of British citizens held in foreign prisons
National
Supported by UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and charitable donations.
[email protected]
Deutsches Sozialwerch in Frankreich
Works with German nationals imprisoned in France.
National
Charity
[email protected]
Skype or video conferencing is used to communicate with relatives and friends in home countries.
National
[email protected]
European Groups providing services for their nationals imprisoned abroad:
There are a small number of groups in Europe providing services for their nationals imprisoned in prisons in and outside Europe. See list ‘European Groups working with prisoners abroad’.
These groups can be statutory, such as the Dutch
Reclassering Nederland, Bureau Buitenland, supported through a combination of government and charitable grants such as Prisoners Abroad (UK), The Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas (ICPO) and Italian Prisoners Abroad (IPA). These 4 groups above are members of the EuroPris/CEP Foreign Nationals in Prison and Probation Expert Group.
National
All groups have their different criteria for initial & on-going contact with prisoners.
See attachment; ‘5 22 1 a European Groups working prisoners abroad Jan2017’. For information about the EuroPris/CEP Foreign Nationals in Prison & Probation Expert Group; https://www.europris.org/expert-groups/foreign-nationals-in-prison/ and http://www.cep-probation.org/foreign-national-prisoners/
from HMP Huntercombe
‘Prisoner Voicemail’, private provider funded by prisoners’ family, no direct cost to prisoners or prison. Contributes to maintenance of family contact.
National
Free-private provider
[email protected]
All prisoners including foreigners, have the right to use the phone and call family members and others. There is also the possibility to call abroad.
National
[email protected]
They offer apartments or rooms for visits inside our prisons and we give the foreign prisoners priority to use these when needed för family travelling far we also give them extra time.
Local
Prison enables longer than the 24-hour long-time visits for prisoners whose loved ones are living in another country, and visiting is expensive and / or time-consuming.
National
[email protected]
HMP Huntercombe
Day-long family visits arranged for foreign prisoners so that they can spend a full day with family members who have travelled long distances, including from overseas, to visit. They can eat together, and support is provided to facilitate children in activities with their parents.
Local
Minimal
Phil Goulalos at HMP Huntercombe.
They work hard with the children’s rights to their parents and always with consideration to what is the best for the child/children.
National and local
[email protected]
Each prisoner is given a prison contact person. Prison will also have contact information about a prisoner’s family members. Where appropriate, the prison contact person will communicate with the prisoner’s family members. It is also possible for family members to contact the prison contact person when it is necessary to inform the prisoner about extraordinary occasions (i.e. death of a family member, serous health matters).
National
[email protected]
‘Prison Voice Project’ at Huntercombe Prison;
2 initiatives to maintain family contacts,
(1) using a private provider, Prison Voicemail, to facilitate prisoner’s families leaving ‘Voicemail’ messages’ for foreign prisoners from callers abroad. Assist to family contacts being maintained.
(2) Full-Day visits permitted for families of foreign prisoners given their especially long, often international, journeys to attend. Meals taken together normalizing visits as far as practical.
Local Initiative agreed nationally. Plans to rollout nationally
No costs to prison or prisoners.
Further Information from; https://prisonvoicemail.com/prisons [email protected] or contact [email protected]
All detainees including foreigners, have the opportunity to subscribe to newspapers and journals (except for prohibited content). Newspapers and magazines can be in prisoner’s mother tongue.
National
[email protected]
Prisoners can watch Estonian, Russian, and German-language channels on television
National
[email protected]
Prisoners can watch Estonian, Russian, and German-language channels on television
National
[email protected]
International Office of The Netherlands Probation Service, Bureau Buitenland.
Dutch Probation Agency working with Dutch nationals imprisoned abroad.
National
Statutory agency.
General e-mail: [email protected] Foreign Desk e-mail: [email protected] http://www.reclassering.nl/buitenland/bureau-buitenland