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Spotlight:
PRI's office in Central Asia hosts 'Public Brainstorming' on Prevention of Torture in Kyrgyzstan
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Last month, PRI’s office in Central Asia hosted a ‘Public Brainstorming’ to facilitate discussions on the Prevention of Torture in Kyrgyzstan. The session was open to the public and was attended by over 300 people including former and current employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, experts, lawyers, judges, representatives of public organisations and initiatives, doctors, teachers, officials, and students. Over the course of the day, the group devised some recommendations on mechanisms to combat torture.The developed recommendations will form the basis of a document that will be provided by PRI's office in Central Asia to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan.
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News: Conference on National Strategies for Juvenile and Child Protection
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PRI’s office in the Middle East and North Africa hosted the Jordanian Conference on National Strategies for Juvenile and Child Protection. The two-day conference brought together experts and key stakeholders to investigate and strategize on various areas of Juvenile and Child Protection. The conference featured discussions on the role of the justice sector in implementing strategies and providing preventive measures for the protection of children.
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External report: Prison Population 2022: Planning the future
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This month, the House of Commons Justice Committee released a report entitled Prison Population 2022: planning the future, outlining the government's prison planning approach. The report finds that the government's approach to planning and funding future prison accommodation is inefficient, ineffective and unsustainable and calls for ‘refreshed narrative around the use of imprisonment and how as a society we wish to deal with crime… [which] should include an explicit recognition that social problems cannot be meaningfully addressed through the criminal justice system’.
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News: New Zealand Corrections Department bans use of tie-down beds in prisons
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Two years after the publication of a report into tie-down beds, the Corrections Department of New Zealand has banned their use in the country's prisons. Chief Ombudsman Judge Peter Boshier described the treatment of five prisoners restrained in the beds as "disturbing" and "inhumane". One inmate was restrained for 16 hours a day for 37 consecutive days – among the cases, Boshier believed breached the UN Convention Against Torture.
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New blog: A Way to Society
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Imprisonment often impacts the psychological and emotional state of a person. Under such circumstances, it is immensely difficult to be hopeful for the future or to have motivation to continue one’s life as this requires enormous effort as well as support of the family and the society. Given these factors, what is necessary for the re-socialisation and reintegration of the prisoner into society? In a new blog, Ana Kanjaradze, Nino Lortkipanidze and Tamar Abuladze seek to answer these questions.
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External report: The role and value of the voluntary sector in supporting older people in the criminal justice system
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People aged over 50 are the fastest growing group in the prison population. Meeting their needs, both in custody and after release, is one of the most pressing challenges facing the criminal justice system. A new report from Clinks examines the role and value of the voluntary sector in supporting older people in the criminal justice system. Entitled Flexibility is vital, the report says that the voluntary sector’s ability to be flexible is key in meeting the needs of older people in the justice system.
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News: 2 out of 3 priosners in Indian jails are under pre-trial detention
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Pre-trial detainees account for two out of every three people in prisons in India. Some 1,942 women held in pre-trial detention are caring for children in prisons. According to the report titled Prison Statistics India 2016, 11,834 pre-trial prisoners (4% of total 293,058 pre-trial prisoners) have been confined inside prisons across the country for three to five years while 3,927 pre-trial prisoners have spent more than five years.
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