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Mental Health, Aging and Palliative Care in Prisons: Meeting held in Lisbon
The Steering Committee of the MenACE project, representing prison administrations from Portugal, Belgium, Norway, and Romania met at the São João de Deus Prison Hospital on the 20th and 21st September 2017. MenACE Mental Health, Aging and Palliative Care in Prisons aims to increase the response to mental health disorders
Electronic Monitoring: high-level policy development workshop in El Salvador
On August 17th 2017, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security of El Salvador, supported by the IDB Inter-American Development Bank, hosted a high-level policy workshop to reflect on the contents of a regulatory framework for the implementation of an electronic monitoring system (electronic bracelets) for the country’s detainees, as
Article on innovation and prison reform through transnational cooperation
Pedro das Neves, CEO of IPS_Innovative Prisons Systems and Dorin Muresan, ICPA board member — both members of the ICPA Staff Training and Development Expert Group — have seen their joint paper published by the latter organization. The paper is available on ICPA’s website and has been publicized on ICPA’s
IPS attends the 147th Congress of Corrections in St. Louis, USA
IPS_Innovative Prison Systems CEO, Pedro das Neves, has participated in the 147th Congress of Corrections, between August 18th and 22nd 2017. The event is organized by the American Correctional Association (ACA) and was held at the America’s Center, St. Louis, in Missouri, USA. The conference has covered areas like health
“INTEGRA”: Radicalization Prevention project gets green light from the EU
The INTEGRA “Integrated Community, Probation and Prison Services Radicalization Prevention Approach” project has been announced to be supported by European Union funds until the year 2020. INTEGRA is a far-reaching transnational project led by the University of Toulouse II (France) having IPS_Innovative Prison Systems (Portugal) as main concept designer and
JUSTICE TRENDS director: “The magazine is only the beginning”
The Confederation of European Probation interviews Pedro das Neves who is concomitantly the Director and Editor-in-chief of JUSTICE TRENDS magazine. The interview is published in full on the website of the organization, which shows special interest in the production process of the new publication published by IPS_Innovative Prison
ECOPRIS seminar: Ecologic development of prison administration
As the ECOPRIS project approaches its end, the auditorium of the Portuguese General Directorate of Probation and Prison Services (DGRSP) in Lisbon, Portugal, was the stage for its International Seminar. The event took place on the 13th of July 2017, gathering all the partners, aiming at promoting the project and
Correctional Directors discuss staff selection, training and development
The 22nd Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services (CDPPS), 20-21 June 2017, Lillestrøm (Norway) was hosted by the Directorate of the Norwegian Correctional Service. Like every year it brought together high-ranking representatives of the prison and probation services of the member and observer States to
Female Prisoners in focus at the 6th EuroPris Conference
The sixth EuroPris Conference and Annual General Meeting took place on the 19th of June 2017, in Lillestrøm, Norway, hosted by the Directorate of Norwegian Correctional Service (KDI). The EuroPris conference focused on an issue that requires special attention within prison settings: Female Prisoners. The conference also included presentations from