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IDECOM: prison staff training using INNOPRIS game
Foreseen in the framework of IDECOM project, which aims prison systems’ innovation, a short-term joint training event, directed at prison staff, was held in Setúbal, Portugal, on October 17th 2016. This event is focused on the Innovation skill development and received 36 participants from Turkish, Moldavian, Romanian and Portuguese prison
Dialog for reintegration: DIACEN Project launches
Preparing for release of prisoners with adult education activities with the aim of fostering dialogue and expression. DIACEN (The Dialogue Center – Taking Further Prison’s Education Projects in Using Dialogue as Preparation for Release) is launched on October 1st , 2016. This project aims to shed light on the adult education
MenACE: Mental health and palliative care in prisons project gets EU funding
MenACE consists in a project that addresses the current needs related to mental health, aging and palliative care in European prisons. Mental health conditions are especially prevalent among incarcerated population, which presently amounts to about 10.35 million, worldwide. These mental health issues are exacerbated with age as over 20% of
Corrections directors conference: The role of community involvement
IPS’ CEO, Pedro das Neves, has honourably participated in the Council of Europe 21st Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services, in Zaandam, The Netherlands, on 14th-15th June 2016. The theme of the Conference was “Community Involvement in Prison and Probation Work”. The role and place of families of
Radicalisation and recruitment discussed by experts
The event counted with 30 high level officials (security, education, intelligence) from 15 countries in the region. On behalf of IPS, it’s CEO, Pedro das Neves, participated as invited speaker at the workshop “Pathways to Radicalisation and Recruitment: Intervention Strategies in the Balkans, Central and South Eastern Europe” organized by
IPS in the advisory board of FORINER
Pedro das Neves, CEO of IPS was very honored to accept the invitation to become a member of the Advisory Board the FORINER project. The FORINER project was initiated to provide EU foreign national inmates in EU prisons with access to qualitative, low threshold, certified learning opportunities provided by home
“Prisons of the Future” final working conference at The Hague
This conference had 85 participants from 25 different countries represented by managers from prison and probation services, academics, researchers and legal professionals. Pedro das Neves on behalf of the BSAFE LAB and IPS participated in the final conference of the project “Prisons of the Future” hosted by the Custodial Institutions
EISALP conference on the written and unwritten rules in prison education
At the conference was Pedro das Neves on behalf of IPS and Teresa Costa Santos, director of the Justice Training Centre. Pedro das Neves chaired a reflection on “Written and unwritten rules in prison education”. The final conference of the EIS ALP project “Prison Education and its Professionals“ was held
Electronic monitoring as alternative to imprisonment discussed in conference
The aim of the conference was to discuss the findings of the research and inform recommendations on best practice to enhance effectiveness of electronic monitoring whilst ensuring its legal, ethical and humane use across the EU. IPS participated at the Conference “Electronic Monitoring in Europe” held in Brussels on the