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IPS supports the CARCEL fashion label manufactured by women in prison
IPS and Made In Prisons IVS establish a global partnership to support the CARCEL project with the sole interest of supporting the achievement of social impact, through capacity building and salaries to the women in prison. CARCEL is a new Copenhagen-based fashion label, manufactured by women in prison. Going where
ECOPRIS: Staff training brings together 38 trainees from three countries
The event has the goal of encouraging the exchange of knowledge and practice and the establishment of an effective and sustainable community of practice, amongst the project partners. ECOPRIS‘ short-term staff training event (STST) – the first event out of three that are planned under the scope of this project
EIGEP project: Public hearing on juvenile justice education policy
The project looks to improve the learning outcomes of education in juvenile settings. The BSAFE LAB Law Enforcement, Justice and Public Safety lab of UBI University and IPS_Innovative Prison Systems promoted a public hearing on Juvenile Justice Education policy in Portugal in the framework of the EIGEP project (European Interaction
MenACE: Staff Training for ageing, mental health, and palliative care in prison
More than 50 practitioners from prison services shared the current situation, the needs, the practices and recommendations on how to address the issues related to mental illness, aging and palliative care among prisoners. On the 6th and 7th February 2017, the partners of the MenACE project, including representatives from prison
PRACTICIES: a far-reaching project against radicalisation
PRACTICIES is a project involving twenty-five organizations headquartered in eight different countries – Portugal, France, Spain, Austria, Italy, Greece, Belgium and Tunisia – and it has received green light for funding by the European Commission, on January 27th 2017. IPS_Innovative Prison Systems is one of the proud partners of this project, which
IPS attends ACA’s 2017 Winter Conference in San Antonio
Health care, aging and technology have proven to be the watchwords in the corrections sector, in the time ahead. IPS_Innovative Prison Systems made a point of being present at the Winter Conference of the American Correctional Association, which took place in San Antonio, Texas, USA, from the 20th to the
ECOPRIS project: Setting the training curriculum structure
The 5th transnational project meeting of the project “ECOPRIS – Ecological Economics in Prison Work Administration” took place in Timisoara, Romania, on the 16th and 17th November 2016. All the partner organizations involved have attended the event, which was hosted by Timisoara Penitentiary. The working agenda for this meeting consisted
INNOPRIS: a board game designed to brainstorm prisons’ innovation
In the framework of IDECOM, IPS Innovative Prison Systems has launched a game storming process named INNOPRIS, which, ultimately, consists in a game. Because fostering innovation in traditional and hierarchical organizations is not easy, IPS Innovation Prison Systems has created a game specifically to be carried out by correctional and
R2PRIS: “Radicalisation Prevention” at the 18th ICPA conference
The event engaged 450 attendees from 75 countries; over a hundred speakers have shared their knowledge and expertise with the participants of this conference, which hosted near seventy workshops and many roundtables. Pedro das Neves, IPS’ CEO, has taken part in the 18th Conference of the International Corrections and Prisons