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Spotlight:
Older persons in detention
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The prison population is ageing, which has important implications for health and age-related policy and practice across criminal justice systems. In prisons, older persons can face particular risks and challenges and may experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. This month, PRI and the Association for the Prevention of Torture published a new tool, Older persons in detention: A framework for preventive monitoring, to support detention monitors in assessing conditions for older persons in prisons in line with international human rights standards, with analysis and practical guidance. Read more.
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Strengthening the role of the UN human rights system in drug policies: The case of arbitrary detention
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At this side event to the 47th session of the Human Rights Council, Elina Steinerte from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will present their new study on arbitrary detention and drug policies. Speakers will discuss its implementation and how to strengthen the role of the UN human rights system in drug policies.
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UN system agrees priorities to tackle global prison issues in first UN ‘common position on incarceration’
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Olivia Rope, Executive Director of PRI, gives her summary and key takeaways from the recently published ‘Common position on incarceration’ from the United Nations System. As the challenges faced by prisons globally have been "exposed further by the global pandemic, change has never been needed more." |
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Prisons and food: From in-cell eating and meal-lines to collective, domestic kitchens
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People in prison lose autonomy and agency over many aspects of their lives, usually including food production and consumption. In this blog, Sabrina Puddu examines the different approaches taken to food in prisons, looking at trends from eating alone in cells, to dining halls, and collective and domestic style kitchens. |
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Human rights in prison while preventing violent extremism and radicalization to terrorism
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On 15 July, PRI and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) will launch ‘Protecting Human Rights in Prisons while Preventing Radicalization Leading to Terrorism or Violence: A Guide for Detention Monitors’. The guide examines specific human rights risk areas in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT) in prisons.
- 15 July 2021, 14:00–15:30 CEST
- English/Russian interpretation
- Register: bit.ly/3ds2mEx
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Double punishment: The situation, challenges and adversities faced by mothers in prison around the world
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Around the world, thousands of children are separated from their mother – often the primary caregiver – when she is sent to prison. In the fifth blog of our series marking the tenth anniversary of the UN Bangkok Rules, Miranda Rathmell, a Prison Officer at a women's prison in the UK, looks at the complex and far-reaching effects of imprisonment of mothers.
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Brain science and its effect on children accused of crimes
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Children in criminal justice systems are more likely to suffer from neuro-disabilities, and 30% of children deprived of liberty have experienced a brain injury at some point in their life. Specialists insist that if children receive the support they need early on, they will be less likely to come into conflict with the law. This new policy paper sets out 10 recommendations on how to better connect neuroscience and the sentencing of children.
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