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Spotlight:
PRI just launched its new strategy – we need your support!
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Our new strategy was published last week, marking the 30th anniversary of Penal Reform International. In the footsteps of our founders, and proud of all we have accomplished over the last 30 years, we now look forward setting the tone of PRI’s evolution and our trajectory for the coming decade.
Today, on #GivingTuesday, we call upon you to make a pledge to support PRI, as we enter our forth decade!
All persons in contact with the criminal justice system are vulnerable because they are subject to the power of the state, on whom they depend to meet their needs and protect their human rights. Many systems continue to be designed for a homogeneous population and are discriminatory. They too often ignore needs and vulnerabilities stemming from differences of circumstance or identity, factors which can exacerbate vulnerability. That is why we are putting people in criminal justice systems at the heart of our work, with a special focus on women, children and young adults and foreign nationals and people without proof of identity.
After 30 years of work in over 130 countries and through the publication of the Global Prison Trends, we have become experts in a number of areas of criminal justice. Over the next four years we want to focus on key and emerging trends which are growing in importance or have previously been neglected.
Thanks to your support, we will:
Thanks to your donation, we will also be able to continue:
Thanks to a diverse staff, embracing PRI’s 30 years of experience and committed to the values set out in the strategy, and thanks to your support we will see our work grow even more impactful over the next decade.
Thank you for your support and friendship to PRI.
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Our ambitions for 2020-2023
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The decade we are entering will determine whether the world is able to sustain and promote human rights, basic humanity, and international law. Criminal law, due process and detention practices play core, even emblematic, roles in human rights protection and the effectiveness of criminal justice systems. Conditions in prisons are therefore indicators of the status of human rights in any country. Thus, in the coming decade, we will play a key role in the renewal of global human rights, reinforcing the foundations of the rule of law and good governance.
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We stand in solidarity with the criminal justice reform community
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Penal Reform International wishes to express its sympathy with the criminal justice reform community following the attack on Friday 29 November 2019 at a prisoner rehabilitation event, which led to the deaths of two representatives of a prisoner education programme, Learning Together.
Our hearts go out to Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt’s families and friends, to all colleagues at the Institute of Criminology of the University of Cambridge and to all relatives and colleagues. Please read the tributes for Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt from the Director of the Institute of Criminology. |
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Development of the prison system in Tajikistan
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The first penitentiary forum of Tajikistan took place in Dushanbe on 20 November 2019.
“A study of the best practices of Central Asian countries shows that it is necessary to reduce the number of people who are serving sentences in closed institutions in the Republic of Tajikistan. Thus, it is necessary to use alternative measures not related to the deprivation of liberty by creating a probation service. This will allow those who have committed less serious crimes to compensate the society and the victims without serving their sentences in closed institutions”, said Mansurjon Umarov, Deputy Minister, Head of the Main Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sentences of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Tajikistan (above).
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A long road to detention being used as a last resort for children
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The UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty was presented after three years of research. The Study represents the first scientific attempt, on the basis of global data, to comprehend the magnitude of the situation of children deprived of liberty, its possible justifications and root causes, as well as conditions of detention and their harmful impact on the health and development of children. The study also identifies best practices in non-custodial solutions applied by States in six situations.
Blog written by Taghreed Jaber, Regional Director for the Middle East North Africa |
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PRI recipient of the Open Society Foundation 2019 New Executive Fund
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Open Society Foundations has awarded Penal Reform International’s Executive Director, Florian Irminger, a New Executives Fund, which will help implement a ‘vision of catalytic organisational change’. PRI joins an impressive list of other organisations with new leadership, from those protecting people with mental disabilities in Hungary to defending rights in the digital environment, and another esteemed criminal justice reform organisation from Indonesia, the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform.
We hope to be able to also count you as a supporter as we launch our new strategy! |
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