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February 2022
 
 
 
Latest news and updates from PRI

Spotlight:

New blog: End-of-life care in prisons

The number of older people in prison has been rising in many countries. This poses specific challenges for health and age-related policy and practice in prisons. In our latest expert  blog, Lynn Saunders, former governor of HMP Whatton in England, discusses some of the challenges in providing health care to older persons in prison, including end-of-life care. She also describes the approach taken at HMP Whatton, where one residential unit was set up as an end-of-life care facility to provide palliative care for terminally ill people in prison. 
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PRI launches literacy programme in prisons in CAR

Last week, PRI and the Ministry of National Education in Central African Republic signed an agreement partnership and PRI has launched a literacy programme in Camp de Roux prison and Bimbo prison, with 20 men and 10 women participating in the three-month course.

Save the date: Event on the Cost of Exclusion

On 24 March 2022 at 12:00 UTC, the Campaign to Decriminalize Poverty and Status will host a virtual seminar: Counting the Cost of Exclusion: Linking criminal law, political exclusion and socio-economic inequality. The event will explore the interplay between social, economic and political exclusion and criminalisation. Simultaneous translation will be provided in Arabic, English, French and Portuguese. 
Register here

New resources now available in additional languages
Last month we launched our 10-point plan to support non-custodial sanctions and measures that are flexible, non-discriminatory and better able to respond and adapt in the face of crises. This model for reform is now also available in French, Spanish and Russian.
 
Lía Fernández' expert blog discusses efforts to raise the voices of children and adolescents with a parent or relative in prison in Latin America and the Caribbean and what they have to say. The blog is now available in Spanish. 

The guide on ‘Protecting Human Rights in Prisons while Preventing Radicalization Leading to Terrorism or Violence’ published by PRI and OSCE ODIHR last year, underlines the importance of independent detention monitoring and looks at specific human rights risk areas in preventing and combatting violent extremism and radicalisation leading to terrorism (VERLT) in a prison context. This guide is now available in Russian. 
 
The Global Declaration on Justice With Children is a culmination of the discussions held before and during the 2021 World Congress on Justice With Children that gathered over 4,800 intergenerational participants from over 100 countries last November. The Declaration is now available in French, Spanish and Russian. 
PRI needs your support

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t over yet. People in prisons around the world continue to face increased risk due to the conditions they are in and restrictions to their regime. We continue to respond through research and guidance to support fair and effective crisis responses in prisons and alternatives to imprisonment and our staff continue to push for long-term sustainable reforms, fighting for the human rights of the millions of people in places of detention worldwide.  

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