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Radicalisation Prevention in Prisons training in Bucharest
Expert practitioners from Romania, Norway, Belgium, Portugal and Turkey met in Bucharest for a week of intense work at Jilava Penitentiary. The participants provided feedback on the R2PRIS assessment tools and training being piloted in their respective countries. For further information about the R2PRIS project, click here.
MenACE: Staff training to improve prison mental health and palliative care
Discussing prison staff training needs, infrastructural and service needs, and changes in laws and regulations. The first staff training event in the scope of the MenACE project (“Mental health, aging and palliative care in the European prisons”) was held in the city of Bruges, Belgium, from February 26th to March
R2Pris at European Commission conference on Radicalisation
Taking stock of the state of play of the projects in the area of radicalisation co-funded by the European Commission. The R2PRIS project was chosen to be presented at the Conference on Radicalisation in Prisons, that took place in Brussels on 27/Feb/2018, hosted by the European Commission in close cooperation with
FRAME GANG project: staff training event held in Portugal
In the scope of the FRAME GANG project, the “O Século” Foundation (in Estoril – Lisbon’s metropolitan area – Portugal) has hosted a short-term training event from February 19-23th, 2018, mainly involving practitioners. The main focus of the training was the European Framework of Competences for Community Professionals in Gang Environments,
JUSTICE TRENDS magazine second issue released
JUSTICE TRENDS magazine publishes its second issue. The cover goes to the featured interviewee Arkel Benítez Mendizábal, the Secretary-General of COMJIB – the Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries. In his interview, COMJIB’s Secretary General highlights the efforts that the organisation he leads is developing to achieve
PROMPT: Stimulating peer support in probation settings
Exploring and implementing an approach to build social capital and resilience within people that are under probational measures. The official kick-off meeting of the project PPROMPT (Peer Pro-Social Modeling in Probation) happened in Ankara, Turkey, on February 8th and 9th, 2018. The event was organized and led by the Ministry
UNODC’s bold new steps on the road to prisoner rehabilitation
Discussions around branding, marketing and points of sale are not often associated with the United Nations family, but they were a large part of the latest expert group meeting convened in Vienna this past week to explore UNODC’s options for supporting a global scheme of prison products, made by
IPS at radicalisation prevention course in Spain
The course “Trainers of Trainers” seeks to provide competences and skills to prevent and contrast the emergence of radical phenomena within the European prisons, through the use of multifaceted, multidimensional and multidisciplinary methods and tools. Members of the IPS_Innovative Prison System’s team were part of a train of trainers course
IPS at CEPOL: Dealing with child sex offenders in correctional contexts
The course focused on “Strategies For Managing Child Sex Offenders”, targeting law enforcement officers – such as police investigators and prosecutors – as well as policy-makers and experts from more than a dozen of EU countries. The 22nd CEPOL (the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training) course took place