ICPA Florida 2022

Event Check-In

10am – 5.30pm, 23 October 2022 ‐ 7 hours 30 mins

Administration

Delegates arriving at the conference venue can collect their namebadge and conference kit. Presenters should attend the Speaker Desk for information regarding session preparations.

ICPA 2022 Welcome Reception

7pm – 9pm, 23 October 2022 ‐ 2 hours

Welcome Reception

The reunion begins! Attend our Welcome Reception to reconnect with colleagues and network with others.

Opening Ceremony and Welcome

8.45am – 9.30am, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Plenary

Keynote Address: The Pandemic Behind Bars: A Catalyst for Positive Change or Another Layer of Despair? (PID097)

9.30am – 10.30am, 24 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour

Plenary

Coffee Break and Exhibition

10.30am – 11am, 24 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Break

Incorporating the Nelson Mandela Rules into prison practice and legislation (PID146)

11am – 11.45am, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has developed a toolkit on the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) to foster the practical application of these universally recognized minimum prison standards worldwide. While covering all of its content, hard copies of which will be available, this session will put a particular focus on its latest addition, namely a Model Prison Act. Potential trends in the post-COVID-19 period that prison systems will need to prepare for to ensure continued adherence to the Rules will be equally touched upon.

Correcting Covid in Kenya (PID086)

11am – 11.45am, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

This jointly-presented paper by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), Kenya Prisons Service (KPS) and Kenya Probation & Aftercare Service (PACS) focuses on the implementation of international human rights standards for correctional services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings will be presented from an ongoing research project by RWI, KPS and PACS that has sought to understand how the uptake of international standards, in particular the Nelson Mandela, Tokyo and Bangkok Rules, has affected the services’ response to the pandemic.  In addition, the presentations will include contributions from winners of an essay competition organised within KPS and PACS to document the lived experiences of corrections officers during the pandemic, and focused on the benefits that ten years of building compliance with international standards brought when faced with COVID-19, as well as the challenges that the pandemic created in maintaining many of those standards.

A new era of correction and re-integration in the Dutch prison system (PID147)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

In the history of the Dutch prison system, the rules and working methods have been continuously adapted to achieve the goals of security, humanity and reintegration to a greater extent. A new law has recently been introduced that puts reintegration and the behavior of detainees even more central. This lecture provides insight into where the Netherlands currently stands, which results have been achieved and which challenges still lie ahead.

Collaborative Approaches to Reduce the Risk of Spread, Mitigate the Effects of COVID-19 and Build Resilience in Prisons: The Kenyan Experience (PID090)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

This presentation describes the successful partnership that was forged by Kenya Prisons Service, Kenya Red Cross Society and the International Committee of the Red Cross to reduce the risk of spread and mitigate the effects of COIVD-19 in prisons.

Lunch

12.30pm – 1.30pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour

Break

Responding to the Profile Shift of the In-custody Population and Delivering Safe Reintegration during the COVID-19 Pandemic Era (PID017)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The two-year duration and multiple waves of the COVID-19 pandemic had a number of direct impacts on the federal (sentenced two years or more) custody population in Canada. Along with concerted efforts to maintain health and security in institutional settings throughout the waves of the pandemic, there were considerable shifts in size and composition of the in-custody population. In particular, substantial numerical declines were observed in both the federal (sentenced two years or more) men and women in-custody population (-1,640 or 12.4% and -103 or 14.8%, respectively). Not only were there changes around how many inmates there were across operational settings (size), it was coupled with observed shifts in the characteristics of these populations (composition). To better understand the nature of the evolving population profile, selected statistics were gathered at mid fiscal year in September 2019 (pre-COVID), then at year-end 2020-21 and then again for 2021-22 in relation to eight major characteristics. Namely age, diversity, sentence length, major offence, offender security level, criminal risk, criminogenic needs, and past parole eligibilities. The operational restrictions imposed and changes in composition over the pandemic period presented some unique challenges in the delivery of custodial services and correctional interventions. This session will focus on describing how the shifts in custodial populations in Canadian Federal corrections system that were brought about by the pandemic period manifested itself and discuss the various challenges, lessons learned and new opportunities that will influence the correctional environment for the near future.

Is change really possible? Teaching an old dog new tricks (PID077)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Nature and Wellbeing in Prison: The Case for Biophilic Design in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID007)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been an unravelling force in prisons, especially regarding the impact of incarceration on the health and wellbeing of prisoners. For example, HMIP in the UK reported extended periods of complete lockdown in UK prisons, with some as severe as 24-hour lockdowns for several days, and 23-hour lockdowns on other days during the pandemic. There is evidence that this living condition in prisons have had significant impact on the health and wellbeing of prisoners – especially on their mental health. Apart from being stuck in a 12 x 8-Foot cell with a cellmate, being unable to access natural elements like sunlight, fresh air and green spaces, and the subsequent acoustic pollution that emanates from other agitated prisoners, creates an intense and pressured environment that can be described as unbearable for any human being. The purpose of this paper is to make the case for Biophilic Design and Biomimetic Solutions in Prisons. 

Establishing a new Mental Health and Addictions Directorate during a pandemic: Where there is a will, there is a Way (PID038)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The presentation will describe the few services that existed prior to the Corrections New Zealand’ Health Services transformation, and the services that were able to be established even during a global pandemic to address critical gaps in our mental health and addiction service delivery.  The presentation will also discuss how these services need to continue to evolve and embrace indigenous knowledge if we are to successfully improve outcomes for indigenous New Zealanders Corrections’ kept COVID-19 out of our prisons for over 18 months. Since COVID-19 breached our prison borders we have had approximately 1800 cases, with only six hospitalisations and no deaths. There was, however, a lot of learning along the way.  This presentation will describe how our COVID-19 response evolved during the pandemic as we tried to strike the right balance between keeping COVID-19 out of our prisons and enabling access to essential services, in this case, mental health and addiction supports.   

Measuring the Impact of Modern Prisoner Communications (PID034)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Realising COVID-19’s digital opportunity – a research & development strategy for transforming rehabilitation (PID112)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Strategic reform initiatives introduced as a response to COVID-19 and retained for the future (PID042)

2.15pm – 3pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The importance of Malaysia’s cooperation – government agency, friendly, and continuous government agencies need to be emphasized in addressing issues and challenges in the post-pandemic prison management recovery period. The Malaysian Prisons Department has taken steps in line with the current pandemic and post-pandemic situation to achieve the department’s vision and mission at the global level. The continuous and holistic concerted efforts of the department, the involvement and participation of relevant ministries, agencies including the private sector, and other important parties are very important in realizing the department’s goals as well as in ensuring that rehabilitation programs can be implemented even during and after pandemic without compromising the safety of staff or the community out there.

The next lap in Community Corrections – the Singapore Experience (PID120)

2.15pm – 3pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

This presentation will cover the expansion of community corrections by the Singapore Prison Service. The presenter will share new initiatives that seeks to improve offender engagement, equip staff to be influencers of change, and accelerate community outreach and partnerships. Examples of these initiatives include the Rehab Coaching, Restorative Practices in Supervision, Transformative Environments, Employment Preparation Scheme, some of which were developed to adapt to the fluid pandemic situation.

Trauma informed architecture: Laying down new principles for the design of women's prisons (PID004)

2.15pm – 3pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

This presentation presents the design and subsequent evaluation of a women's prison accommodation project. It reveals the importance of considering trauma in every aspect of prison design and highlights the importance of further development in the emerging field of trauma-informed design.

Pandemics, epidemics, and the most frequent outbreaks in places of detention: “how can readiness be improved”? (PID152)

2.15pm – 3pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The history of epidemics and pandemics in the past few decades has taught us that pandemic risk is inevitable. It also serves as a reminder of the complex risks of new, emerging and re-emerging diseases, such as tuberculosis, HIV, cholera, swine flu, avian flu, Ebola, COVID-19 and most recently, monkeypox, particularly when they occur in contexts that have weakened public health services and/or are affected by humanitarian crises. A pandemic or epidemic, or subsequent measures to contain them, can also cause secondary crises through spikes in violence and civil unrest, economic downturn.

Availability of a National Contingency Plan for all types of epidemics and pandemics is a key towards achieving country operational readiness. However, COVID-19 exposed inadequacy of contingency planning and resources allocation strategies of public and prison health systems across the world.

In this presentation we will share the most recent data on diseases with high potential for epidemics that deserve regular monitoring and surveillance, as well as ICRC data on the most frequent outbreaks in places of detention in the past 5 years, the ongoing challenges faced in their control as well as the ICRC’s operational response and recommendations.

Digital Transformation And The Introduction Of Mobile Devices For Prison Staff: Ensuring Security, Efficiency, And The Prisoners’ Needs. A Swiss Experience (PID013)

2.15pm – 3pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

DIGICOR Digitalisation in corrections towards reduced recidivism (PID099)

2.15pm – 3pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Coffee Break and Exhibition

3pm – 3.30pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Break

Beyond the Stone Walls Advisory Collective: Establishment, Operation and Outcomes (PID021)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Addressing Behavioral Health Needs While Engaged with Community Supervision: Using Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic to Improve Outcomes for Rural Populations (PID043)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Serco’s strategy to improve prisoner wellbeing outcomes through innovation (PID141)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Creating Time Well Spent: Building new regimes and culture across HMPPS: a collaborative session (PID113)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Resetting and rebuilding; what we are learning in HMPPS and how we are transforming our regimes and culture in the light of living with a pandemic. A collaborative and practical session sharing evidence informed practice and guidance, insight and hope. 

Beyond Prisons: Women and Community Corrections (PID144)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Transforming Rehabilitation Through Digital Technology (PID087)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Technology innovations in CSNSW to deliver online behaviour change programs have been adopted, and are now part of a strategic reform initiatives to provide over 10 000 inmates with in cell devices to enhance rehabilitation opportunities. During COVID, the  impacts were reduced for over 5000 inmates who currently have access to in cell tablets. They were able to connect with family and friends and reported improved gaol experience. Community Corrections remotely delivered criminogennic programs to offenders across multiple regional locations in a live therapeutic environment. 

Reimagining correctional safety: Instilling safety through the empowerment of people most impacted (PID073)

4.15pm – 5pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Rethinking Corrections: A Restorative Approach (PID127)

4.15pm – 5pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Lessons learned from COVID-19 response and navigating current and future supply chain interruptions (PID072)

4.15pm – 5pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

This group will be a roundtable or panel of correctional food service, manufacturing, purchasing and food safety professionals. The panel will discuss best practices used during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep a safe supply of food available for detainees. The discussion will include current actions being taken during the 2022 supply chain crisis and plans to mitigate the lose of supply and additional uncertainty resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The panel will take questions from the audience following the presentations.

Moral performance, prison reform and the potential of applied research: a case example in Chile (PID010)

4.15pm – 5pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

This presentation is about the benefits of incorporating research into the prison world, based on the case example of Chile. Our main findings suggest that promoting prison reform in Chile not necessarily or uniquely has to do with infrastructure. Rather, i) the appropriate training of prison personnel would be (more) important to prioritize than other variables, ii) prison environments are important for rehabilitation, iii) changes are not impossible, but they need of prison leadership and organizational commitment to make them happen.

Practice Transfer Taskforce (PID145)

4.15pm – 5pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Community Correction Service Transformation Supported by Digital Technology During the Pandemic (PID151)

4.15pm – 5pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The challenges presented by the pandemic, and the resulting lockdowns over the past couple of years, have exposed the fragility and vulnerabilities of mainstream systems and practices across many industries, including the community corrections sector. Responding to the challenges required innovation, agility and collaboration, delivering results that would have been previously unimaginable. Coming through the pandemic we have had a two-year lesson in change management, including a fast track into the digital age.

There are many examples of how technology-enabled effective change in response to pandemic-related challenges, both in the prison environment and community corrections. An excellent example of service transformation is the story of how the Ramsey County Community Corrections team, based in Minnesota USA implemented remote supervision

In a series of blogs published on APPA Connect, Jason Mereness tells us that in March 2020 their traditional operating model of supervision through in-person meetings was significantly disrupted as their offices had to close due to social distancing measures. In response, they decided to instantly transform their department’s probation practices from traditional in-person meetings to almost exclusively remote supervision and services relying on video and phone communications.

Two years on, Ramsey County has successfully transformed their operating model. They have introduced more contact options for their clients and improved flexibility and working conditions for staff by embedding remote supervision and services practices in their work.

An interesting aspect of this story is the response to the change. Mereness followed up on his team’s digital transformation experience with some research, (supported by Adriana Ace, a colleague from the Research and Evaluation Unit) in which they got feedback from both probation colleagues and service clients.

Host Reception

7pm – 9pm, 24 October 2022 ‐ 2 hours

Welcome Reception

Network Group Discussions

8.15am – 9.15am, 25 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour

Network Group Discussions

Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (PID148)

9.30am – 10.30am, 25 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour

Plenary

Coffee Break and Exhibition

10.30am – 11am, 25 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Break

Four case studies of excelling beyond the old normal: the Peace Education Program in Zimbabwe, Dominican Republic, Brazil and Florida, USA (PID079)

11am – 11.45am, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

In this international panel presentation about the Peace Education Program, we will explore how this empowering workshop series can improve the quality of life of incarcerated people, their families, correctional staff and prison officials across international and cultural borders. The pandemic has exacerbated mental distress among incarcerated individuals, making this wellbeing and personal development program more important than ever. Despite challenges that forced many other correctional activities to pause, this presentation will demonstrate how participation in the Peace Education Program grew throughout the world due to the innovative efforts of volunteers and correctional staff who have witnessed the power of these workshops to change lives.

Secondary Prisonization and Forgotten Families During the Pandemic (PID124)

11am – 11.45am, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Research statistics (Children Heard and Seen, 2022) indicate that 65% of boys with a parent in prison are more likely to go on to offend, although this data somewhat oversimplifies the complex relationship between parental imprisonment and childhood experiences. Despite such findings, children are not systematically identified in the UK when one of their parents goes to prison, and as such they as such remain a forgotten and largely unsupported group. ‘Families First’ is a new initiative delivered by the charity YSS and is part of a multi-agency collaboration in Worcestershire in the United Kingdom (UK) to identify and support families impacted by the incarceration of a parent or carer. The long-term objectives of these services are aimed at maintaining connections within families, reducing rates of adult re-offending and to reduce the risk of children entering the youth justice service or being excluded from school. Findings from two main strands of the present study will be presented.

Telerehabilitation model for violent and sexual offenders with ADHD or autism traits: A collaborative model with the Autism Foundation Finland and the Criminal Sanctions Agency of Finland (PID049)

11am – 11.45am, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

During the recent years, it has been noticed that the neuropsychiatric needs of prisoners have been under-recognized in Finland. The core traits of ADHD are a risk factor for criminal behaviour and many autistic traits can be related to criminal behaviour. The need for better recognition of autism and ADHD traits among prisoners and the need for developing a special rehabilitation model has been obvious. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was proved necessary to establish a telerehabilitation model.

The main strategic vision of the Criminal Sanctions Agency of Finland is to prepare offenders for a life without crime. Well-targeted neuropsychiatric rehabilitation can at its best provide considerable benefits for society by reducing recidivism. 

Transforming New Zealand’s Department of Corrections’ Health Services and reclaiming Indigenous health knowledge and practice during a pandemic – change is the only thing that is constant! (PID037)

11am – 11.45am, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

‘Kotahi anō te kaupapa: ko te oranga o te iwi’
‘There is only one purpose to our work: the wellness and wellbeing of people’

Hōkai Rangi is New Zealand’s Department of Corrections’ Strategic Plan. The plan has been developed as an acknowledgement of, and an effort to address, the long-standing over-representation of Māori (the Indigenous people of New Zealand), within the Corrections system. Addressing this over-representation is vital to a positive future, given Māori make up around 17% of the total population yet, just over 50% of the prison and community corrections populations.
In developing Hōkai Rangi, Māori in prison and their families, Māori organisations, and academics were engaged to help identify the priorities of Hōkai Rangi. This process of design, development and consultation identified that the elevation of Māori knowledge and ways of being, oranga (wellbeing) and healing is essential to the work of Corrections in Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies as a Response to the Pandemic and for the Future in the Nordic Countries (PID057)

11am – 11.45am, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

This presentation describes the digitalization process of inmate services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nordic countries. We describe the new systems implemented in Sweden and Finland as well as their preliminary effects and feedback. These systems include the Smart Prison system implemented in Finland and tablet solutions implemented in Sweden. These solutions include further digitalization efforts such as providing prisoners with access to smart systems, such as digital services for use inside and outside prison. Based on the preliminary results of these implementations, we also present future digitalization strategies regarding inmate services such as Digital Prison of Future in Sweden and the Artificial Intelligence based ‘RISE AI’ solution for the offender management system in Finland. We will also present a vision for collaboration between Sweden and Finland in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cross-border offender management as a collaborative effort. 

Depopulation by Deflection: Sustainable Post-COVID Justice Reform (PID066)

11am – 12.30pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

This presentation describes sustainability of evidence-based depopulation strategies for local detention facilities initiated due to COVID-19. Deflection - redirection of those in behavioral health crises from the public safety system into the public health system – is reviewed, focusing on successful efforts in the years leading up to the pandemic. During the pandemic, law enforcement agencies were forced to creatively seek alternatives to detention due to mandates from governing authorities to reduce populations in these congregant settings. Many of these alternatives can be sustained, affording access to care that reduces criminogenic risk, and creates safer communities at substantial cost-savings. The Baltimore Therapeutic Treatment Center (BTTC) in the State of Maryland is the most progressive and innovative solution, incorporating best practices from around the world. This will be the first time the BTTC is presented publicly as the project begins its architectural design phase.

Protecting staff and prisoners from COVID-19 in a prison setting (PID048)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Supporting and Involving Families in the Rehabilitation of Offenders (PID119)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Singapore Prison Service (SPS) recognises the importance of assisting and involving families in the rehabilitation of offenders, not only to promote desistance, but also to mitigate the risk of intergenerational offending. To this end, SPS works closely with community partners to support and involve offenders’ families and children, through various initiatives like information and referral services, family programmes, and partnerships.

This presentation showcases the approach and ongoing and recent initiatives undertaken by SPS to involve the offenders' families in the rehabilitation and reintegration journey, in a deliberate and sustainable manner.

Covid-Altered Corrections: Responses Based on Crisis, Cognition, and Culture (PID071)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Partnering with Indigenous New Zealanders and a District Health Board to develop a new model of mental health and addictions care for Corrections (PID039)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Digital Technology: Use of Artificial Intelligence in screening for TB for Prison Healthcare (PID046)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Health through Walls uses Digital Adherence Technology (DAT) as an alternative solution to Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) in five (5) Haitian prisons with little to no healthcare staff.
Digital adherence technology is innovative:
- In a prison setting where such technologies are generally absent or even prohibited due to security concern.
- In improving treatment adherence and outcomes for TB by engaging the correctional officer to participate in TB treatment. It allows a greater reach of treatment for prisoners with TB in areas where healthcare staff are limited.
The Video Observed Therapy (VIOT) project was successful in showing good adherence and treatment outcomes among prisoners under VOT as compared to DOT.  The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has enabled easier access of new technologies into the prison system.

Lunch

12.30pm – 1.30pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour

Break

Criteria for Technical Standards in Detention Facilities: With and Among Countries (PID098)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

External Prison Oversight, Human Rights and the Pandemic: International Perspectives (PID096)

1.30pm – 3pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Parallel Plenary

This panel is an opportunity to hear from three Heads of external oversight agencies from three distinct jurisdictions as they reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their respective operations. The panel will also examine how they will modify their approaches to continue to deliver their important legal mandate after the global pandemic. Heads of external oversight agencies from the United States (Inspector General for DOJ), Australia (ACT Inspector of Correctional Services) and Canada (Correctional Investigator) will discuss (1) the impact of covid on incarcerated individuals in their respective jurisdictions; (2) how they reorganized themselves during the pandemic to maintain their respective legal mandates; and (3) how their oversight operations and priorities may change moving forward. 

The Effect of Global Crises on Countries Struggling with Violence and/or Conflict - the Resilience of Prison Services (PID100)

2.15pm – 3pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

Coffee Break and Exhibition

3pm – 3.30pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Break

Pandemic, prison and education: challenges and accomplishments of exercising a human right in Argentine prisons (PID064)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Prison is one of the most challenging places to teach and learn, the extreme conditions in which people live inside the walls produce phycological and physical obstacles that make the dream of a primary or secondary school diploma almost impossible to achieve. Despite the difficulties, what always have characterized prison education in Argentina is the sense of community, and those communities have always been the ones who pushed policy makers to improve education within prisons. The pandemic did not stop us and in this journey, we lost a lot, we cried a lot, but we moved forward together to defend public education for more 10 thousand students who embrace the dream of achieving their school diploma. 

Dealing with old prison infrastructure to improve condition of detention: operation and maintenance (PID041)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Five Minute Intervention – Every Contact with an in inmate counts - Across the globe and during COVID-19 (PID047)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Creating a positive rehabilitative culture within a correctional environment by teaching prison staff 10 key skills when communicating with inmates to turn everyday conversations in opportunities for behaviour change. How a HMPPS program was implemented across the globe, during a pandemic. International relationships have blossomed and rehabilitative culture is spreading to other Australian jurisdictions with technology and collaboration proving positive results.

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Correctional Facilities During COVID Times: Highlighting Changes, Innovations, and Opportunities for Growth (PID080)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Based the results of a completed scoping review, this interactive presentation aims to highlight what is known about medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment during the novel-coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in correctional institutions around the world. Participants will learn about MOUD, its utility in correctional facilities, and what is known about the impact of COVID-19 on MOUD programs in correctional settings. The presenter will describe innovations described in the literature which facilitated the continuation of MOUD services. Additionally, challenges associated with the use of these tools will be explored. Suggestions will be drawn from the literature to translate this learning to future program planning, research, and care delivery. These suggestions include areas of potential practice change, room for advocacy, and opportunities for leadership support. 

Racial Bias and Amelioration Strategies for Risk Assessment (PID083)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The disproportionate incarceration of racial and ethnic minorities is a growing issue worldwide that has been exacerbated by COVID-19. Come see the mitigation strategy being adopted that utilizes an all new assessment tool design, from which models resulting in higher levels of accuracy that simultaneously reduced levels of racial/ethnic and gender biases were validated. 

Displaying the products of the inmates through the online store in order to market them and benefit from the income arising from that, whether for the inmates or their families (PID139)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Applying Human Rights Based Approach in Georgian Penitentiary System During COVID-19 Global Pandemic (PID062)

4.15pm – 5pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Within the framework of the presentation, all relevant topics will be discussed in more detail. Considering the audience of the conference, we remain confident that Georgian presentation will be a valuable contribution to the overall aim of the conference theme. 

Correctional facility design, post pandemic: lessons learned from health facility design (PID035)

4.15pm – 5pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Without a doubt the COVID-19 global pandemic impacted lives personally and professionally in ways we could have never imagined. Because of the prevalence of medical and mental health issues of those who are incarcerated, the health industry has a number of models in regard to COVID-19 that could be applied to the design of correctional facilities. This session will bring together global design and operations experts from both the health and corrections industry to discuss lessons learned from the pandemic and what healthcare models are applicable to correctional facilities.

The Little Things Matter: A Lived-Experience Study in Cell Design + Lessons and opportunities from the pandemic (PID085)

4.15pm – 5pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The experience of compulsory dwelling in restricted spaces provides a close alignment between society and prison life not experienced in living memory. The notion of mandated confinement provides the contrast and platform in this session to discuss aspects of prison cell design that otherwise would be unremarkable prior to the pandemic. 

Developments in violence risk assessment in The Netherlands (PID156)

4.15pm – 5pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Since the implementation of the new penal law (2021), it is even more important to assess the risk of violent behavior in prisoners. Scholars developed a new screening tool commissioned by the Dutch prison system. The tool predicts violence within and after detention and first empirical evidence shows that these predictions are accurate.

Dutch prisons use the tool as a standard part of intakes and later considerations on re-integration. In this lecture, information is provided on the setup, the implementation, use and empirical evidence of the screening tool.

Going Beyond Walls and Borders – Accelerating Ops-Tech Transformation with People, Data and Networks (PID155)

4.15pm – 5pm, 25 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Opening Ceremony and Regional Day Welcome

8.45am – 9am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 15 mins

Plenary

Opening Ceremony

Regional Day (North America) Welcome: Secretary Ricky D. Dixon, Florida Dept. of Corrections, USA

The Scandinavian Prison Project: Implementing Scandinavian Correctional Policies in the United States (PID094)

9am – 9.45am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Plenary

The Scandinavian Prison Project (SPP) is focused on an ongoing, international collaboration between the correctional services in Pennsylvania and Scandinavia. A unique, fully-transformed housing unit, inspired by correctional officer's trips abroad, opening in May of 2022. This presentation reports on the development process, collaborations and preliminary impacts on prison climate.

Adapting the Public Health-Focused Norwegian Resource Team Model to End Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons (PID138)

9.45am – 10.30am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Plenary

We will describe the Norwegian “Resource Team” model as an approach to reducing the use of solitary confinement among people with serious mental and behavioral health problems and we will describe the partnership between Amend and the Norwegian Correctional Service that has successfully adapted this approach for use in US prisons. 

Coffee Break and Exhibition

10.30am – 11am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Break

Correctional Health is Public Health: How the Correctional Service of Canada Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID027)

11am – 11.30am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

Adaptability, collaboration and being able to pivot quickly became a necessity within the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) to ensure success in minimizing COVID-19 transmission. This presentation will demonstrate how CSC implemented a layered approach of infection prevention and control measures in congregate living areas that prioritized the health and wellbeing of those living and working in CSC. A Core COVID-19 team led the organization through the pandemic by reviewing evidence, developing policy and guidance documents, providing recommendations for outbreak management, and reporting on CSC’s COVID-19 data. It will speak to how CSC created rapid response teams that were mobilized to provide outbreak assistance where health services staffing pressures were affecting service delivery and how CSC developed algorithms to assist institutions in managing those with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases by outlining testing and medical isolation requirements.

Why Transitional Healthcare is the New “Re-Entry” (PID036)

11am – 11.45am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

“Incarcerated pregnant woman” is a term often overlooked in correctional systems. Prisons are constructed to deliver harsh punishments, stripping the incarcerated person of their identity and creating an endless cycle of labeling that ostracizes the person. With numbers of incarcerated women increasing drastically, correctional systems must identify pregnant women as a special population and commit to delivering high quality maternal healthcare. Well-developed systems of care for pregnant women and their babies are rare; The Officer Breann Leath Maternal Child Health Unit at the Indiana Department of Correction has established a prison nursery model that promotes motherhood, family preservation, and intense Transitional Healthcare planning for mother and baby at release.

Breaking Bad: Why Good Staff Do Bad Things Identifying Risk Factors and Implementing a Prevention Plan (PID084)

11am – 11.45am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Mothers on the Rise: Supporting Mother/Baby Pairs Transitioning from a Prison Nursery to Community (PID015)

11am – 11.45am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Mothers on the Rise is an innovative approach to support the transition of mother/baby pairs from a prison nursery to their home community. Created by a team of public health faculty, transitional health care staff within the Indiana Department of Correction and a woman formerly incarcerated while pregnant, our approach is working to successfully empower mothers in their community integration, promote maternal and child health, and raise the awareness of the important needs of mothers involved in the justice system.

PA DOC: System Expansion of Remote Zoom Visits and OJJDP COIP Second Chance Grant (PID022)

11am – 11.45am, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Outbreak Management at the Correctional Service of Canada (PID019)

11.30am – 12pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

United Nations Rapid Assessment Tool and Supplemental User Guidance for Prison Healthcare

11.45am – 12.30pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Impacts and Innovations: The American Correctional Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID012)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose a substantial problem for our country’s correctional agencies. Since the onset of COVID-19, practical information about effective responses for correctional agencies has been lacking. Correctional leadership has been forced to innovate to keep their staff and populations safe and ensure continuity of operations. Along with making these modifications, many correctional agencies have seen drastically reduced budgets. With these challenges impacting correctional leaders for over two years, the administrators, staff, and incarcerated populations have been severely affected. In addition to the responsibilities staff are normally tasked with, they were assigned additional duties, as well as required to adjust to major changes in their work environment. 
The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) recognizes the importance of understanding how correctional systems across the country are continuing to modify their operations and the outcomes of these changes.

The Pandemic Gender Gap Behind Bars and Lessons for the Future (PID075)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Michele Deitch and Alycia Welch, authors of the report “The Pandemic Gender Gap Behind Bars: Meeting the Needs of Women in Custody During COVID-19 and Planning for the Future,” will examine the distinct challenges faced by women in custody during the COVID-19 pandemic and strategies to address those needs. Drawing on the advice of correctional health experts and the research on gender-responsive approaches to supervising women in custody, Michele and Alycia will identify ways to mitigate the harm caused to women by policies meant to reduce viral spread in prisons and jails and draw lessons that carry beyond the pandemic. These approaches will strengthen public health and improve safety for women, their families, and communities.

Digital Offender Education and Family Visitation During the Pandemic (PID026)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The global pandemic required to reconsider the role of technology in operations. Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) assessed how it could support the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders, offender programming, offender education, and family visitation. CSC piloted a blended virtual program delivery with self-study to meet the programming needs of offenders. With the restriction of public access to institutions, CSC expanded a cloud based learning management system that allows offenders to access a variety of educational courses using an interactive digital learning environment. CSC also developed an Offender Video Kiosk to connect offenders to courts, Health Services, Psychology, Program Delivery and Family Visitation. This session will explore the lessons learned through the implementation and expansion of these solutions by CSC to become a more efficient, effective, and flexible organization in the dawn of the pandemic recovery.

Wastewater Surveillance and Outbreak Prediction (PID025)

12pm – 12.30pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

Measuring the level of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, or wastewater testing, can assist in predicting increases or decreases in COVID-19 cases in a community. This presentation will demonstrate the feasibility of wastewater testing in Canada’s federal correctional facilities and the correlation of wastewater results with cases of COVID-19 among staff and offenders within those institutions. Moving forward, CSC plans to onboard more sites and decentralize wastewater analysis to enable more timely information for risk management decision making and outbreak containment and prevention. Additional data will assist CSC in developing and validating a prediction model to identify case clusters not yet apparent based on clinical illness. Beyond COVID-19, the national wastewater surveillance project also demonstrates potential to surveil and predict other infectious disease outbreaks.

Lunch

12.30pm – 1.30pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour

Break

Inmate Population Stratification through Specialized Prisons (PID133)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) developed several specialized prison missions to begin stratifying the inmate population with new management strategies and programs. The institutional missions include Short Sentence, Incentivized, and Administrative Management. The primary focus of each mission is designed to meet the needs for those inmates specifically identified, along with meeting the goals of the FDC by providing healthy, sustainable and compassionate environments that are the foundation of our values, and through implementation of rehabilitative programs that support continuum of services for inmates and offenders, resulting in a successful transition into the community.

Covid: A reset for American Corrections? (PID009)

1.30pm – 3pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Parallel Plenary

We will contemplate how correctional leaders, sheriffs, and other criminal justice system actors can play a role in reducing financial incentives to incarcerate. Drawing from the Brennan Center’s new report Perverse Incentives—which demonstrates how incarceration has become a commodified trade of people, increasingly driven by monetary gain over public safety - this conversation will highlight the multifaceted nature of the problem and identify potential solutions implemented by leaders in the correctional field.

Emergency Management in a Correctional Setting (PID135)

2.15pm – 3pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

An emergency preparedness plan must outline a comprehensive and effective program to ensure continuity of essential functions under all circumstances. The plan must identify a baseline of preparedness for a full range of potential emergencies to establish a viable capability to perform essential functions during any emergency or other situation that disrupts normal operations.

Coffee Break and Exhibition

3pm – 3.30pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Break

Klinik Solidarite - Providing Healthcare to HIV Positive Former Prisoner’s and Their Partners in Vulnerable Areas of Haiti (PID023)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Shaping Success for Women: A Gender-Responsive, Technology-based Approach for Reentry (PID093)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

This presentation will detail a gender-responsive, technology-based strategy designed to enhance reentry efforts for justice-involved women. The initial project planning began in 2019 and has continued to evolve over the past couple of years. The pandemic interfered with aspects of the project at times, presenting a few challenges along the way. However, preliminary data is available to examine one-on-one case management sessions, use of incentives relative to sanctions, engagement in digital programming in addition to traditional in-person programming, and goals met on individualized case plans. The goal of this presentation is to demonstrate an innovative example of what efforts can be made to bridge the gap between incarceration and post-release.

CCWORK protocol: a longitudinal study of Canadian Correctional Workers’ Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge (PID142)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Knowledge about the factors that contribute to the correctional officer’s (CO) mental health and well-being, or best practices for improving the mental health and well-being of COs, have been hampered by the dearth of rigorous longitudinal studies. In this presentation, we share the approach used in the Canadian Correctional Workers’ Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge study (CCWORK) and select findings, all intended to investigate several determinants of health and well-being among COs working in Canada’s federal prison system.

CCWORK is a multiyear longitudinal cohort design (2018–2023, with a 5-year renewal) to study 500 COs working in 43 Canadian federal prisons. We use quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments (i.e., surveys, interviews and clinical assessments) to assess participants’ mental health, correctional work experiences, correctional training experiences, views and perceptions of prison and prisoners, and career aspirations. Our baseline instruments comprise two surveys, one interview and a clinical assessment, which we administer when participants are still recruits in training. Our follow-up instruments refer to a survey, an interview and a clinical assessment, which are conducted yearly when participants have become COs, that is, in annual ‘waves’.

Among CCWORK’s expected scientific contributions, we highlight a detailed view of the operational, organizational and environmental stressors impacting CO mental health and well-being, and recommendations to prison administrators for improving CO well-being. We also look at how policies shape CO well-being and unpack the impacts of training and onboarding. We also interrogate recruitment and respond to the challenges tied to turn over intent and action.

Honor Units, What Prison Culture Can Be (PID095)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Honor Units are prison living units that are designed to change the paradigm of ownership and responsibility to be shared collectively among those who reside in them. They align with the Norwegian idea of normalization, which posits that life inside prison should resemble life outside as much as possible. A living environment rooted in humanity results in a heightened sense of community, responsibility, and an incentive for pro-social behavior. Honor units are an opportunity to mirror life outside of prison and better prepare our future neighbors for success post-release. The honor unit policy in Colorado was thoughtfully written by women incarcerated at La Vista Correctional Facility in collaboration with two other groups incarcerated in men’s facilities that have adopted the model. This presentation will call on the experience and insight of the Executive Director of the Department, Dean Williams, alongside women incarcerated at LVCF who will call in from their Honor Unit virtually.

Cracking the Code: Innovation and Technology . . . Beyond the Pandemic, and Beyond the Gate (PID078)

3.30pm – 4.15pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Test & Treat+3: Victory at La Victoria, the largest penitentiary facility in the Caribbean (PID063)

4.15pm – 5pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Test & Treat+3: Victory at La Victoria, the largest penitentiary facility in the Caribbean. A screening program to diagnose, link to care, and treat for Syphilis, HIV and Hepatitis C in the Dominican Republic’s penitentiary system. This project provides a field experience of the implementation of a screening program within a complex penitentiary system and looks to share the lessons learned to further improve the health outcomes of incarcerated persons. Staff, civilians, and incarcerated persons were tested and  most have been linked to care as required. Details will be provided regarding age, origin, sex, sexual behaviors, condom use and IVD use. Come and join us!

Reducing Tension Inside Prisons in Mexico: The 'Respect Module', a model promoted through humanitarian partnerships for Women Deprived of Liberty (PID129)

4.15pm – 5pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Prison authorities in Mexico and the ICRC wish to share with ICPA members the experience of the “Respect Module” currently being implemented in the Federal Women’s Prison in Morelos. Through the description of how this partnership worked together and how this alliance has improved the day-to-day mood inside the prison, the session with describe how women deprived of their liberty are better being prepared for their lives beyond the prison walls.

Contributing to Good Corrections through Applied Research: 35 Years in Review (PID033)

4.15pm – 5pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

In the late 80’s the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) turned towards realizing its new Mission of becoming a knowledge-based, rehabilitation focused correctional agency. As part of those efforts, the Research Branch was established in 1988 signalling the fact that the agency was committed to conducting its own applied and operational research that could guide change in policy and practice. Areas of focus currently include developing a range of descriptive offender profiles, exploring the impact of Structured Intervention Units, gender diverse inmates, recidivism, radicalization, and key correctional performance indicators. This workshop presentation will emphasize how sustaining quality in the conduct of research, consistent focus on remaining operationally relevant, efforts to translate research findings into policy and practice implications, and networking with the broader research community can support an agency like CSC to Excel Beyond the ‘Old’ Normal. 

Experiences Beyond Recidivism: Conducting Oral Histories with Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Washington State (PID092)

4.15pm – 5pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Through long-form interviews, I explored the “interiorities” of the formerly incarcerated in Washington state — their hopes, desires, uncertainties, traumas, and crises — to shed light on new perspectives on enhancing reentry into society.

Can digital platforms improve safety and wellbeing in community corrections? (PID118)

4.15pm – 5pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

This presentation aims to examine the potential for digital technology to enable more effective support for people returning to the community, either leaving prison or on day release. More effective in this context is defined as improving the safety and wellbeing of service users and staff.
The specific product we examine in this paper is Socrates 360 - a digital platform providing support for people in prison and as they return to the community. The rise of in-prison lockdowns and of remote probation supervision since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have served to highlight the acute need for new means of communication for people in prison and on probation, as well as for new ways of delivering content and services that can support service user wellbeing and safety.
The Socrates 360 platform, delivered via tablets and smartphones, seeks to meet this need. The product is being rolled out in prisons and probation areas in the US, Australia, England and Wales.

ICPA Correctional Excellence Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner

7.30pm – 11.30pm, 26 October 2022 ‐ 4 hours

Gala Dinner

Our Correctional Excellence Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner is a highlight of the Annual Conference. Winners of the 2022 Correctional Excellence Awards will receive recognition for their efforts in advancing professional corrections.

Institution-based normalization: bringing humanizing, destigmatizing, and harm reduction focused concepts inside the walls (PID088)

9am – 9.45am, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

The MDOC uses dynamic, cutting-edge approaches to intervene, treat, and destigmatize the residents in their care. This is all part of the MDOC’s Maine Model of Corrections – a new approach to corrections that emphasizes the need and importance to normalize, humanize, destigmatize, and modernize correctional practices. The Department has been able to re-write the philosophy of incarceration. This has included efforts to implement universal health care initiatives, along with normalized language and operational practices, that are not common in correctional settings. These initiatives have led to a healthy, safe, and stabilized population of residents – creating safety and security without the need for traditional corrections philosophy of power, control, and compliance. The results of these efforts are a more humane correctional environment, allowing for the creation of normalized living units within Maine’s corrections facilities that mirror residential environments in our communities.

The Intersection of Correctional Business and Technology – The Opportunity and Roadblocks (PID149)

9am – 10.30am, 27 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Parallel Plenary

During this Plenary a panel of Technology leaders and Business experts will explore the art of the possible to do the business of corrections differently. They will explore some correctional challenges, emerging technology and what it means in terms of how the business of corrections can change. The participants will open with a dialogue on the benefits of modernisation and what is the need that is driving us to think differently: Are we a modern and effective sector?

The panel members will further exchange thoughts on the cultural aspect of corrections and the associated leadership and share their opinions non what it is that we do well and what it is that we need to do differently to transform corrections from a global context.

Community Mobilisation to Support Offenders, Ex-offenders and their Families – Opportunities during and after the pandemic (PID050)

9.45am – 10.30am, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Plenary

Community support for offenders, ex-offenders and their families is essential in preventing reoffending, and an important focus for Singapore. This presentation will share how Singapore continued to engage and mobilise the community in the midst of COVID-19, and how Singapore will continue to tap on the gleaned opportunities, as we move into a post-pandemic environment.

Coffee Break and Exhibition

10.30am – 11am, 27 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Break

Key outcomes and recommendations of the PO21 Prison Officer of the 21st Century initiative: new profiles, competencies and training for correctional officers (PID104)

11am – 11.30am, 27 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

To meet the objectives proposed in the PO21 Project - namely the construction of a transnational initial training curriculum, the development of learning resources and a training course for prison officers; the promotion of sectoral qualifications and the facilitation of professional mobility through the adaptation and development of new offers of vocational education and training, according to the current and future needs of prison officers - data collection was carried out at various levels: national and transnational roundtables, DACUM workshops - to survey current and future needs and challenges, considering the duties inherent to the prison officer’s professional profile and contributing to designing a curriculum; Advisory Board Meetings; and the auscultation of prison officers.
The presenter will present and discuss the key outcomes and recommendations of the PO21 Prison Officer of the 21st Century initiative: new profiles, competencies, and training for correctional officers.

Pre-trial detention in the European Union: prior challenges and new solutions (PID061)

11am – 11.45am, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The COVID-19 pandemic imposed further difficulties at a number of levels in the already intricate area of corrections. Pre-trial detention is no exception, therefore calling for adaptations and new solutions to unprecedented challenges. As such, countries such as Austria, Germany, Italy and Portugal noted a significant decrease in the numbers of pre-trial detainees, as a result of sped up releases and larger openness for the application of alternatives. Studying the application of alternative measures to pre-trial detention is one of the main goals of the EU-funded PRE-TRIAD project. In sum, its Interview Report points out many judges and prosecutors noted a little room for discretion in their decision-making process, overall guided by necessity, something which would appear contradictory to the decline of pre-trial detainee numbers at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this presentation is therefore to present the main findings of the PRE-TRIAD project.

Challenges and Barriers for CSC's Volunteer Program (PID024)

11am – 11.45am, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

While the pandemic has shown us that volunteering can innovate and evolve, and volunteers can provide more and different options to engage offenders, we still face many barriers to expand the program. Most of the volunteers in our institutions are older, retired individuals who are motivated by their faith to volunteer or a personal commitment to self-help programs that have helped them, like Alcoholics Anonymous. The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is currently developing performance measures for the volunteer program. We will be focusing on developing qualitative indicators from a new satisfaction survey for volunteers. Discussions at ICPA 2022 will assist in strengthening performance measures, evaluation approaches and research questions so that more effort can be directed into establishing the value of volunteers in rehabilitation globally. This workshop will provide helpful input into the first meeting of the new ICPA Network Group on Volunteers.

Keeping Your Detention Facilities Out of the Ditches and on the Right Path (PID001)

11am – 11.45am, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

In today’s world, we define success and failure in outcomes. In correctional health care, our goal is to do no harm or leave them better than we found them. Choosing the right pathway is the key to meeting those goals and achieving a good outcome. 
A thorough assessment of your health care system may warrant an external body to speak to you about what your goals are, where your facility currently stands, and where you want to go. 
Correctional officers are with the inmate population 24 hours a day. They are the eyes and ears of your facility. With proper training and preparedness, they can recognize changes in an inmate’s demeanor, health, and mental stability before anyone else. 
Help your staff develop professionally. Those opportunities can then be recognized in a number of ways, bolster self-confidence, and enhance the working environment. 
Accreditation offers assurance both internally and publicly that a facility holds itself to high standards of care.

Digital Transformation in Prisons (PID153)

11am – 12.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

During this interactive break-out sessions we will continue the conversation on the evolution of emerging technology and their role in prison transformation. A panel of experts from the technology sector will elaborate on questions such as:

• What technology moving forward will enable prison modernisation.
• What can vendors to differently to ensure successful modernisation, both from working with jurisdictions in a different way as from innovate on their own products.
• What do jurisdictions could do differently to ensure success
• What are the challenges the vendors are facing and how best deal with those
• How do we deal with the digital divide that inmates may be facing
• How do we improve the correctional ecosystem so we work as partners to create change and have a win/win proposition.

Digital Transformation in Community Corrections (PID154)

11am – 12.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

During this interactive break-out sessions we will continue the conversation on the evolution of emerging technology and their role in the transformation of Community Corrections. A panel of experts from the technology sector will elaborate on questions such as:

• What technology moving forward will enable community corrections modernisation.
• Is there enough balance between control & supervision vs motivational and support technology?
• What can vendors to differently to ensure successful modernisation, both from working with jurisdictions in a different way as from innovate on their own products.
• What do jurisdictions could do differently to ensure success?
• What are the challenges the vendors are facing and how best deal with those
• How do we deal with the digital divide that ex-offenders are facing when returning into society?
• How do we improve the correctional ecosystem so we work as partners to create change and have a win/win proposition.

Improving multi-level correctional staff competencies, enhancing multiagency cooperation, and building on top of best practices during the COVID-19 pandemic (PID091)

11.30am – 12pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

Violent extremism and terrorism remain a threat and a top priority worldwide. Thus, several initiatives have been implemented focusing on improving correctional staff competencies on preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). As a wholesome approach to P/CVE is stressed, our paper touches upon the achievements of the R4JUST and HOPE projects, which although implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, turned challenges into benefits to ensure a comprehensive training approach to correctional staff. Recent contributions from the newly-started MIRAD, EUTEx, and R2COM projects to corrections will also be highlighted, including not only their role on building upon the R2PRIS’ RRAP Toolset, but also their specific role on multiagency cooperation to ensure a successful prison-exit continuum. In sum, results from pre- and post-test on the effectiveness of the R4JUST training, HOPE Network’s achievements, and future steps for P/CVE within corrections, will be presented.

Managing the remand population: challenges facing correctional services and opportunities for change in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic (PID059)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Corrections is often criticized for high rates of incarceration and the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples and visible minorities, despite the fact that they have no control over who is arrested and, subsequently, brought to their facilities. In many jurisdictions, the bulk of the adult custodial population is comprised of individuals on remand; that is, those awaiting trial or sentencing who are legally presumed innocent. Managing this population presents unique challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 global pandemic. This presentation examines some of these challenges before delving into potential solutions that seek to improve outcomes while balancing the principle of least restrictive measures with public safety. Promising areas for improvement include legislative and regulatory amendments, operationalizing the principle of least restrictive measures through institutional policy changes, and adopting an individualized, person-centered model of care for all clients.

Community Corrections Practices Involving Cooperation between Justice Authorities and Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan – Challenges and Tends (PID028)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

In Japan, many volunteers participate in community corrections and they support offender rehabilitation strongly. Before the COVID-19 Pandemic, it was very difficult for them to introduce or use new technologies including social media services as a method of the supervision due to protecting the supervisees' privacy. However, the Pandemic negatively impacted community corrections in Japan and let practitioners to the adoption of new perspectives and techniques, and these new ones have benefits for community corrections. On the other hand, the new ones can not replace traditional face-to-face interview because both of volunteers and supervisees mention the positive impact of face-to-face interview. This information imposes a questions on us, what has important role and are effective to rehabilitate supervisees? This presentation will explore the challenges and new practices in community corrections in Japan and how to support rehabilitation during the pandemic.

Evaluating the Impact of the Psychological Health Model on the Wellbeing and Mental Health of Frontline Justice Care Professionals (PID106)

11.45am – 12.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

To address the challenges faced by Frontline Justice Care Professionals (e.g. community corrections, probation, parole, reintegration services) the Australian Community Service Organisation implemented a Psychological Health Model (PHM) aimed at proactively assisting with mental health and wellbeing. The PHM contends that mental health and wellbeing are separate, yet related, issues that should be conceptualized within an integrated framework, thereby maximizing the impact of training on psychological health by ensuring that knowledge transfer is contextualized within a consistent narrative. A study was conducted to assess the degree to which the PHM was positively impacting staff. Results indicate that there was a positive relationship between mental health training and measures of mental health as well as between wellbeing training and measures of wellbeing. Participation in either type of workshop also had a positive impact on both mental health and wellbeing (interaction effect).

Reducing workplace stress through the development of better leadership skills: the outcomes of the LEADCOR project (PID101)

12pm – 12.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

This presentation focuses on the LEADCOR (Leadership development for occupational stress reduction in correctional settings) project, which proposes an innovative approach to reducing the stress levels of prison staff (including correctional officers, educational staff and psychologists, social workers) through the development and improvement of leadership competencies. This approach will mitigate tensions among management and staff, between staff, among staff and their families, and between staff and inmates. 
This presentation will present the outcomes of the LEADCOR project. 
The LEADCOR project developed prison staff competencies by introducing two innovative ways of outreach and delivery: 1) Leadership training for prison staff; and 2) The use of a game-based approach for leadership development.

Lunch

12.30pm – 1.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour

Break

The Breakaway - the first e-cycling team for prisoners (PID008)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The prison of Oudenaarde (Belgium) launched “The Breakaway”, the first e-cycling team for prisoners. 6 inmates from the high security prison started racing with thousands of riders in the outside world via the virtual cycling platform Zwift.

Traumatic Stress due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Persons Experiencing Substance Use Disorders: Implementation of the Impact Event Scale with Modifications for COVID-19 (IES-COVID-19) (PID109)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The global infectious disease outbreak of COVID-19 can be considered a traumatic event. The required quarantine and social distancing protocols may induce traumatic stress in persons experiencing substance use disorders (SUD) which may lead to prescription drug misuse, returning to drug use after a period of remission, and an increased risk for overdose death.
A prevention strategy for persons at risk for overdose includes integrating a screening for traumatic stress into the medical history inquiry. An urban Maryland (USA) outpatient SUD program implemented a 13-week quality improvement project to screen adult clients for traumatic stress symptoms related to the pandemic using the Impact Event Scale with Modifications for COVID-19 during the intake assessment. The results of this project suggest that screening for traumatic stress as an added prevention strategy proves useful in early identification of trauma-related stress disorders in persons experiencing substance use disorders.

Drug Detect Project (PID143)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

The Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency (hereafter DJI) is facing the challenge to reduce misuse of drugs in order to be able to improve safety, prevent reoffending and tackle serious and organised crime in prisons. During the Covid pandemic, new types of drugs have been detected as well as new ways of introducing drugs into the prisons. This made the need for improved solutions for drug detection even more stringent. In order to tackle this challenge, DJI requested and won in 2021 together with the prison services from Greece, Belgium and Spain a grant from the European Union to launch a collaborative procurement of innovative solutions for drug detection.

Driving Legislative Compliance in Structured Intervention Units Using Real-time Operational Reporting (PID031)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Project on Integration of Smart Technologies into Prisons (PID074)

1.30pm – 2.15pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

My Life Behind Bars (PID020)

1.30pm – 3pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Parallel Workshops

Meet people from all over the prison world and beyond and learn about their personal experiences in our special area. Be an active part in this session and get in touch with the interviewees! You also have the opportunity to submit your personal wish for the future of prisons.

The Incidence Of Star Offenders In Nigeria Custodial Centres: A Case Study Of Ado-Ekiti Custodial Centre, Nigeria (PID126)

2.15pm – 3pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Star offenders can still have their stars shining provided they are not locked up without due consideration.

Disrupting movement of contraband through prisons (PID068)

2.15pm – 3pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Fixed infrastructure and security operations are effective at stopping some contraband entering prisons, however, screening all visitors, staff and other professionals entering with contraband will never be 100% effective, as fixed infrastructure can be beaten. To solve this issue the Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI) teamed up with Thruvision to disrupt the movement of contraband inside their facilities. 

Prototype of an integrated data management system for a successful rehabilitation in Chile (PID011)

2.15pm – 3pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

New Encounters from the Frontline: Technology Assisted Literacy and Language Learning (PID103)

2.15pm – 3pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 45 mins

Parallel Workshops

Over the last few years, correctional settings have struggled to provide learning opportunities due to covid, lack of resources, and occasionally administrative priorities. Correctional Service Canada has created new technology-assisted and enhanced opportunities for individuals by offering the use of reading pens. This device utilizes scanning technology and was designed by Scanning Pens, to support students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia or those learning English. This presentation will provide insight into the educational experiences of the students/prisoners, the implementation of the technology including addressing security and training the staff and instructors, and the success and challenges to date. Future educational learning design goals and extensive research projects will be a key part of the session. 

Coffee Break and Exhibition

3pm – 3.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Break

Panel: Participants Perspectives on the ICPA Florida 2022 Conference

3.30pm – 4.30pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 1 hour

Plenary

Details to be confirmed

Closing Session and Conclusions

4.30pm – 5pm, 27 October 2022 ‐ 30 mins

Plenary

Invitation to ICPA Antwerp 2023, Belgium: Jean-Paul Janssens, President of Direction Committee, Federal Public Service Justice, Belgium

Closing Speech: Peter Severin, ICPA President, Australia

Closing Remarks: Michelle Carpentier, ICPA Acting Executive Director, Canada

Florida Dept. of Corrections Honor Guard and Retiring of the Colours

Prison/Facility Visits

9am – 5pm, 28 October 2022 ‐ 8 hours

Prison/Facility Visits