With over 200 speakers and more than 100 presentations, our programme spans across six days, comprising plenary sessions and parallel workshops, correctional facility visits, awards ceremony, networking events and more.
See below to view the programme schedule and content. Click on the sessions to view descriptions, speakers and biographies.
ICPA 2022 Programme
Sunday 23 October
Event Check-In
10am – 5.30pm EDT
Administration
ICPA 2022 Welcome Reception
7pm – 9pm EDT
Welcome Reception
Monday 24 October
Opening Ceremony and Welcome
8.45am – 9.30am EDT
Plenary
Opening Ceremony and Welcome
Plenary
Opening Ceremony: Florida Dept. of Corrections Honor Guard and Presentation of the Colours
Welcome and Introductions:, Michelle Carpentier, ICPA Acting Executive Director, Canada
Opening Speech: Peter Severin, ICPA President, Australia
Host Jurisdiction Speech: Secretary Ricky D. Dixon, Florida Dept. of Corrections, USA
Speakers
Michelle Carpentier
Peter Severin
Secretary Ricky D. Dixon
Keynote Address: The Pandemic Behind Bars: A Catalyst for Positive Change or Another Layer of Despair? (PID097)
9.30am – 10.30am EDT
Plenary
Keynote Address: The Pandemic Behind Bars: A Catalyst for Positive Change or Another Layer of Despair? (PID097)
Plenary
The pandemic was a stark, global reminder that conditions of imprisonment have a profound impact not only on incarcerated people, prison staff and their respective families, but also wider public health. The unprecedented scale rendered many mechanisms that constituted the “old normal” unsustainable. There was urgent need to rethink all aspects of incarceration and implement change.
At national level, positive action was sometimes taken immediately, including reducing prison populations and integrating prison systems in the COVID-19 response.
Around the world, and with one common goal, action was mounted by states, correctional authorities, civil society and international organizations, who shared information, and material and technical support. Change was possible, focused around mutual interest.
And now? More than two years on, many prison systems retain exceptional measures to contain the virus that bear a heavy price: restrictive regimes, reduction in family contact, and lack of interaction between staff and detainees. This has added another layer of despair to crises which predated COVID-19’s arrival in prison: lack of space, food and healthcare; crumbling infrastructure; staff shortages; climate change; conflict; economic downturn. None of these has disappeared.
The “new normal” risks being equally unsustainable and urgent action is still needed.
Building on ICRC experience of visiting detainees and supporting prison and health authorities in over 70 contexts, the keynote will consider whether the experience of the pandemic can still be a catalyst for radical and sustainable change and if so, how.
Speakers
Terry Hackett
Coffee Break and Exhibition
10.30am – 11am EDT
Break
Incorporating the Nelson Mandela Rules into prison practice and legislation (PID146)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Plenary
Incorporating the Nelson Mandela Rules into prison practice and legislation (PID146)
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.Speakers
Philipp Meissner
Correcting Covid in Kenya (PID086)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Plenary
Correcting Covid in Kenya (PID086)
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.Speakers
Josh Ounsted
Florence Omundi EBS.
A new era of correction and re-integration in the Dutch prison system (PID147)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Plenary
A new era of correction and re-integration in the Dutch prison system (PID147)
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.
Speakers
Monique Schippers
Toon Molleman
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 EDT
Parallel Plenary
Collaborative Approaches to Reduce the Risk of Spread, Mitigate the Effects of COVID-19 and Build Resilience in Prisons: The Kenyan Experience (PID090)
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.Speakers
ACP Dan Obiero
Geert de Vries
Lunch
12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Responding to the Profile Shift of the In-custody Population and Delivering Safe Reintegration during the COVID-19 Pandemic Era (PID017)
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.Speakers
Larry Motiuk PhD
Dr. Leslie-Anne Keown
Is change really possible? Teaching an old dog new tricks (PID077)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Is change really possible? Teaching an old dog new tricks (PID077)
Parallel Workshops
Two years on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Community Corrections NSW has started to assess the impact of the changes made to offender management and flexible working that have been retained post pandemic.
These changes include:
• a more responsive offender management framework that allows supervision to be conducted remotely, for example via phone or video, based on the risk and responsivity needs of the individual
• increased flexibility in where work is conducted, based on the type of work activity, organisational requirements and expectations and individual needs.
• a more responsive offender management framework that allows supervision to be conducted remotely, for example via phone or video, based on the risk and responsivity needs of the individual
• increased flexibility in where work is conducted, based on the type of work activity, organisational requirements and expectations and individual needs.
Contrasting performance data, anecdotal feedback and employee survey responses from pre and post pandemic has shown that there have been notable improvements in performance outcomes and a small increase in positive employee feedback. This is significant given it has been achieved during a time of significant disruption organisationally and in the wider community, during the pandemic.
Speakers
Joanne Kennedy
Nature and Wellbeing in Prison: The Case for Biophilic Design in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID007)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Nature and Wellbeing in Prison: The Case for Biophilic Design in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID007)
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.Speakers
Bolatito Akinrolabu MBA.
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Establishing a new Mental Health and Addictions Directorate during a pandemic: Where there is a will, there is a Way (PID038)
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.Speakers
Dr. Emma Gardner
Measuring the Impact of Modern Prisoner Communications (PID034)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Measuring the Impact of Modern Prisoner Communications (PID034)
Parallel Workshops
This presentation explores two major topics:
- How increasing the communication options for inmates can increase and improve these connections during incarceration,
- How these connections can influence positive outcomes.
- How these connections can influence positive outcomes.
The “old normal” isn’t for everyone. For some, seeing a face through video visitation is far more powerful than a phone call, while for others, text, video and voice messages are preferred.
Ways in which a prisoners’ outside support network plays a factor in optimizing post-incarceration outcomes will be outlined. Christopher Ditto, Vice President of Research & Development with ViaPath (formerly known as GTL), will explore the measured impact that new digital communications have had on prisoner connections with the outside, gleaned from analyzing the 500 million inmate calls, 22 million video visits, and 186 million messages processed by his company’s platform each year.
Speakers
Christopher Ditto
Realising COVID-19’s digital opportunity – a research & development strategy for transforming rehabilitation (PID112)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Realising COVID-19’s digital opportunity – a research & development strategy for transforming rehabilitation (PID112)
Parallel Workshops
The global pandemic opened doors to new possibilities. In New South Wales, Australia it allowed the government to ask whether digital technology could be a positive disruptive force for transforming prisoner rehabilitation. Indeed, digital technology was central to transforming other NSW government services. In 2020 the government committed to funding the introduction of a digital technology platform across all NSW prisons including tablet devices, online visits, and live, online programs.
But to disrupt and transform rehabilitation and reduce reoffending Corrective Services NSW needed more than digital platforms - they required a research and development (R&D) strategy to establish the knowledge and digital capability. This session details the CSNSW R&D strategy – the background, frameworks and the 14 key project areas. It provides direction for CSNSW but it is also a call-out to the correctional and university sector to partner with CSNSW on this journey.
Speakers
Strategic reform initiatives introduced as a response to COVID-19 and retained for the future (PID042)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Strategic reform initiatives introduced as a response to COVID-19 and retained for the future (PID042)
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.Speakers
Dato Haji Nordin bin Muhamad MD.
The next lap in Community Corrections – the Singapore Experience (PID120)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
The next lap in Community Corrections – the Singapore Experience (PID120)
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.Speakers
Haslindah Binte Shonib
Trauma informed architecture: Laying down new principles for the design of women's prisons (PID004)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Trauma informed architecture: Laying down new principles for the design of women's prisons (PID004)
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. |
Speakers
Sarah Paddick
Pandemics, epidemics, and the most frequent outbreaks in places of detention: “how can readiness be improved”? (PID152)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Pandemics, epidemics, and the most frequent outbreaks in places of detention: “how can readiness be improved”? (PID152)
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.
Speakers
Elena Leclerc
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Digital Transformation And The Introduction Of Mobile Devices For Prison Staff: Ensuring Security, Efficiency, And The Prisoners’ Needs. A Swiss Experience (PID013)
Parallel Workshops
In April 2022, the new Zurich West Prison with a total capacity of 240 beds is replacing existing police detention facilities. Confronted with the challenge of managing and administering up to twelve thousand newly arrested persons per year, we were looking for a digital tool that supports staff in the interaction with prisoners. Finally, we opted for a mobile device that combines communication, security, and a software connected to the OMS.
A new ‘Prisoner App’ has been developed allowing
1) real time knowledge about the location of prisoners within the facility;
2) an improved handling of internal movements and visits;
3) information on the prisoner with a regard to his/her needs.
1) real time knowledge about the location of prisoners within the facility;
2) an improved handling of internal movements and visits;
3) information on the prisoner with a regard to his/her needs.
We would like to present our unique system and discuss with you the effects of such a mobile device/app on prisoners and staff.
Speakers
Annabelle Sersch
DIGICOR Digitalisation in corrections towards reduced recidivism (PID099)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
DIGICOR Digitalisation in corrections towards reduced recidivism (PID099)
Parallel Workshops
It is known that the recidivism rate usually fluctuates between 30 and 50%, approx., in some European countries such as Germany, Romania, and Belgium, going up to 75% in the case of Portugal. Looking to offer inmates effective reintegration perspectives, digitalisation and digital self-services are one of the latest innovations in the prison context. Prison administrations’ openness towards modernisation is rather slim, but the COVID-19 pandemic acted precisely as external pressure.
Nonetheless, there is much to be done to thoroughly prepare the penitentiary systems to accept and successfully manage technological solutions. As such, the EU-funded DIGICOR project seeks to provide training to prison staff, enhance their digital skills, and successfully harness technology toward inmate rehabilitation. The goal of this paper is therefore to present the latest results of DIGICOR’s survey, as well as the findings of its “Prison Digitalisation Scenarios”.
Speakers
Tiago Leitão
Coffee Break and Exhibition
3pm – 3.30pm EDT
Break
Beyond the Stone Walls Advisory Collective: Establishment, Operation and Outcomes (PID021)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Beyond the Stone Walls Advisory Collective: Establishment, Operation and Outcomes (PID021)
Parallel Workshops
The Beyond the Stone Walls Advisory Collective (BSWAC) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was established in 2020. As COVID-related restrictions were introduced in Victoria, the BSWAC was introduced as a remote initiative for ex-members of prison-based Think Tanks to collaborate and advise on projects commissioned by government and non-government organizations.
BSWAC members are academics, researchers, higher education students, practitioners affiliated within the social justice space, and ex-incarcerated individuals.The lived experience of people with criminal justice history has been largely omitted by policymakers, making the BSWAC unique to other advisory organizations in the social justice space. This paper discusses the challenges and benefits in the set up of the BSWAC.
Speakers
Marietta Martinovic PhD, MA, BA (CJA)
Tarmi A'Vard
Dwayne Antojado
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 EDT
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)
Parallel Workshops
Learn about a model for community supervision that addresses several key issues: Improving access to behavioral healthcare for justice-involved populations, efficiently and effectively serving clients in rural areas, leveraging various funding sources including Medicaid and other insurance providers, and integrating innovative technology.
This presentation will also discuss Free Your Mind, a new cognitive behavioral curriculum addressing criminal thinking, substance use, anger control, antisocial personality traits, and sex offender risk. Free Your Mind makes popular and often inappropriately applied terms like “evidence-based practice”, “person-centered” and “trauma-informed” a truly applied, responsive intervention and method of being present with clients.
Speakers
Serco’s strategy to improve prisoner wellbeing outcomes through innovation (PID141)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Serco’s strategy to improve prisoner wellbeing outcomes through innovation (PID141)
Parallel Workshops
We explain how IT innovations have enabled a step-change in our Healthcare and Psychology Service provision in custodial settings as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Backed by Psychological research, technology has enabled a series of innovations focussed on the health and wellbeing of both colleagues and prisoners in our care – a consideration brought to the forefront because of the pandemic. From personal health screening, to counselling to self-service TVs for prisoner services, Serco has led the way in UK custodial settings in trying to make life better for all.
Speakers
Natalie Parrett MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS
Hayley Peek
Creating Time Well Spent: Building new regimes and culture across HMPPS: a collaborative session (PID113)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Creating Time Well Spent: Building new regimes and culture across HMPPS: a collaborative session (PID113)
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.Speakers
Gill Attrill OBE. CPsychol.
Ed Cornmell
Beyond Prisons: Women and Community Corrections (PID144)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Beyond Prisons: Women and Community Corrections (PID144)
Parallel Workshops
The “Beyond Prisons Task Force on Women and Community Corrections” will present its work, its findings and its recommendations.
The Task Force, established in 2019, recognized that women were the fastest growing population at all stages of the criminal justice system and had a goal to promote and support the development and sharing of knowledge in relation to research, gender/trauma-informed programs, and community-based alternatives for women in conflict with the law. The Task Force has drawn on evidence, expertise, policies and practices from around the world with the aim of informing governments, policy makers, practitioners, partners and the public.
In a world where criminal justice agencies are being asked to “do more with less” and to be more responsive to various populations, this workshop will present the work of the Task Force, and include its newly developed guide and proof of concept on Cost-Benefit Analyses (CBA) or Cost-Effective Analysis (CEA) to clearly demonstrate results of community-based programs.
The workshop will showcase the power and importance of being gender and trauma informed and in using a CBA / CEA approach through presentations by Sarah Byron of the Parole Board of Canada, Linda Wienberg of The Moss Group and Mary Mbau of the Kenya Probation and After Care Service.
Speakers
Sarah Byron
Linda Weinberg
Transforming Rehabilitation Through Digital Technology (PID087)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Transforming Rehabilitation Through Digital Technology (PID087)
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.Speakers
Renee Van Aaken
Danielle Matsuo
Reimagining correctional safety: Instilling safety through the empowerment of people most impacted (PID073)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Reimagining correctional safety: Instilling safety through the empowerment of people most impacted (PID073)
Parallel Workshops
Correctional safety has historically been rooted in control. This has led to an ongoing failure to address trauma and realize long-term safety. We need to shift our idea of safety to one that creates the conditions for all community members to be and feel protected, resilient, and whole. That is holistic safety.
In this session, Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, psychologist and former Cook County jail warden, will relay a unified vision of safety built alongside 100+ people with lived experience of the carceral system, including a tangible framework to guide policy change and strategies to empower staff and people incarcerated in reform. Concepts will be brought to life through stories of implementing the first-ever contact visitation program at Cook County jail. Participants should leave inspired by a new framework to analyze and shift institutional policies and practices through in order to sustainably improve safety alongside people with lived experience.
BSWAC members are academics, researchers, higher education students, practitioners affiliated within the social justice space, and ex-incarcerated individuals.The lived experience of people with criminal justice history has been largely omitted by policymakers, making the BSWAC unique to other advisory organizations in the social justice space. This paper discusses the challenges and benefits in the set up of the BSWAC.
Speakers
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia
Khalil A. Cumberbatch
Thomas Schoolcraft
Rethinking Corrections: A Restorative Approach (PID127)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Rethinking Corrections: A Restorative Approach (PID127)
Parallel Workshops
The International Institute of Restorative Practices posits that human beings are happier, more cooperative and productive, and more likely to make positive changes in their behavior when those in positions of authority do things with them, rather than to them or for them. A restorative approach to discipline focuses on restoring the relationship between an offender and his/her community through collaboration and rehabilitation of mindset and behavior.
A major flaw of traditional (punitive) disciplinary practices is its focus on only behavior, which is a symptom – but not the root of – the issues that manifest as problematic behavior. Pairing a cognitive behavioral approach with restorative practices, we can more effectively and compassionately address underlying self-defeating thinking patterns. In addressing the root – not merely the symptoms – of the issue, lasting change is not only possible, but inevitable.
Speakers
Trevor Lloyd
Deborah Powell
Lessons learned from COVID-19 response and navigating current and future supply chain interruptions (PID072)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Lessons learned from COVID-19 response and navigating current and future supply chain interruptions (PID072)
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.Speakers
Moral performance, prison reform and the potential of applied research: a case example in Chile (PID010)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Moral performance, prison reform and the potential of applied research: a case example in Chile (PID010)
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.Speakers
Dr. Guillermo Sanhueza
Practice Transfer Taskforce (PID145)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Practice Transfer Taskforce (PID145)
Parallel Workshops
ICPA has an expressed ambition to influence correctional practice worldwide. One of its key objectives is “To maintain ICPA as an innovative, learning organization, promoting and disseminating good practices”. Knowledge sharing is one avenue for doing this and ICPA’s breadth of activities in sharing knowledge has steadily multiplied and matured with its Annual Conferences, various specialty Conferences and Webinars, a practitioner-oriented scholarly Journal that has been published regularly over the last 7 years, and more. Despite all these efforts, however, we also know that the transfer of knowledge doesn’t always or easily translate into the actual transfer of new practice. There are many examples of exemplary and innovative practice that emerge locally in one prison or community corrections jurisdiction that unfortunately remain only local in their impact.
This Workshop will outline the aims of ICPA’s new Practice Transfer Taskforce (PTTF), outline the approach that has been taken so far to more actively encourage practice transfer, and discuss some of the successes and lessons learned along the way. Realistically, on a yearly basis, we see the possibility of choosing only two or three examples of exciting new practices that have been highlighted during the ICPA Annual Conference. We want to remain flexible in the process for selecting and then promoting these practices. Most importantly, we want to invite the entire ICPA community of corrections professionals to share their ideas and suggestions for how to make this initiative another ICPA achievement.
Speakers
Dr. Frank Porporino PhD.
Bob Goble
Community Correction Service Transformation Supported by Digital Technology During the Pandemic (PID151)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Community Correction Service Transformation Supported by Digital Technology During the Pandemic (PID151)
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.
Speakers
Patricia O’Hagan MBE
Host Reception
7pm – 9pm EDT
Welcome Reception
Tuesday 25 October
Network Group Discussions
8.15am – 9.15am EDT
Network Group Discussions
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (PID148)
9.30am – 10.30am EDT
Plenary
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (PID148)
Plenary
The ICPA Distinguished Scholar Lecture is sponsored by the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (IACFP)
Introduction by Diane Williams, Treasurer, IACFP
Over half a million people are released from prison each year. They join a staggering twenty million Americans who live with a felony record. They return to a new world, where over 44,000 laws and policies dictate where they may go, with whom they may live and how they spend their time. This is mass incarceration in America, where 40 percent of the people we lock are way are black, 84 percent are poor, and half have no income at all. Where our primary response to people who cause harm is to exclude them. And the U.S. is not alone. Scholars have warned us about mass supervision—the formal and informal sanctions that target people we’ve labeled criminal for years after their release.
Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller was confronted by these brute facts as a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago during the height of mass incarceration, as the son and brother of formerly incarcerated men and as a sociologist studying mass incarceration’s afterlife. Miller has spent a career walking alongside people we've learned to be afraid of and the families who suffer with them. His work reveals a simple, if overlooked, truth: mass incarceration has an afterlife, and that afterlife is its own form of prison. It has changed the social life of the city and altered the contours of democracy one (almost always) poor black family at a time.
Speakers
Dr. Reuben Jonathan Miller
Diane Williams
Coffee Break and Exhibition
10.30am – 11am EDT
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Four case studies of excelling beyond the old normal: the Peace Education Program in Zimbabwe, Dominican Republic, Brazil and Florida, USA (PID079)
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.Speakers
Moses C. N Chihobvu
Willow Baker
Ivete Belfort
Grace Butler
Theodore Levitt
Carol Ryan
Secondary Prisonization and Forgotten Families During the Pandemic (PID124)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Workshops
Secondary Prisonization and Forgotten Families During the Pandemic (PID124)
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.Speakers
Dr. Stephanie Jane Bennett
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
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)
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.
Speakers
Kati Sunimento M.Ed.
Katri Mikkola MA(Psych)
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
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)
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).
Speakers
Kerry Dougall
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies as a Response to the Pandemic and for the Future in the Nordic Countries (PID057)
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.Speakers
Håkan Klarin
Pia Puolakka
Depopulation by Deflection: Sustainable Post-COVID Justice Reform (PID066)
11am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Depopulation by Deflection: Sustainable Post-COVID Justice Reform (PID066)
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.Speakers
Protecting staff and prisoners from COVID-19 in a prison setting (PID048)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Protecting staff and prisoners from COVID-19 in a prison setting (PID048)
Parallel Workshops
The following are a brief synopsis of the measures that were implemented during the pandemic.
Categorisation of prisoners:
- Symptomatic / Positive / Close contacts / Quarantine/ Medically Vulnerable and General Population
Contact Tracing:
- A bespoke model that traced probable cases only allowing for the early isolation of index cases and their close contacts
Development of various response teams:
- Including National Infection Control Team and a senior management team
- Including National Infection Control Team and a senior management team
Point of Entry Screening:
- All entrants were symptom and temperature checked on entry to each prison
- All entrants were symptom and temperature checked on entry to each prison
Quarantining / Swabbing of prisoners:
- Swabbing of Quarantine Prisoners in a timely fashion to reduce their quarantine period
- Swabbing of Quarantine Prisoners in a timely fashion to reduce their quarantine period
- Successful Vaccination Programme
- PPE Supply and distribution
- Education: (Whole of prison approach – Staff and prisoners)
- Outbreak Management – Mass swabbing of prisoners to seek out the virus
- Antigen Testing for staff and essential prisoner workers
Speakers
Enda Kelly RPN, MSc, FFNM RCSI
Supporting and Involving Families in the Rehabilitation of Offenders (PID119)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Covid-Altered Corrections: Responses Based on Crisis, Cognition, and Culture (PID071)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Covid-Altered Corrections: Responses Based on Crisis, Cognition, and Culture (PID071)
Parallel Workshops
A knowledge of neuroscience is fundamental to understanding individual and collective responses to both immediate and long-term stressors and crises.
The immediate effect of these traumatic events is seen in individual neurochemical reactions such as will be discussed below, while the longer-term cumulative effect of individual neurochemical reactions to trauma is progressively seen in environmental contexts such as correctional facilities.
COVID-19 resulted in historically unique stresses and crises that individually affected both the people who are incarcerated and those who manage and care for them, as well as the management, operation, and environment of correctional facilities.
Speakers
Dr. David Stephens PsyD.
Geoff Stobart
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 EDT
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)
Parallel Workshops
In 2018 the New Zealand Government announced that a new 600-bed replacement prison would be built, which includes a ‘first of its kind’ mental health and addictions service.
Following this announcement work began, again using a co-design approach with key health and indigenous partners, to co-develop the details of the service. This plan was finalised in March 2022 and outlines the Model of Care that will be implemented along with some key design features that will be developed through the implementation phase. These features will be detailed in the presentation.
The presentation will reflect on some of the challenges and opportunities in setting transformational objectives and elevating Māori expertise and knowledge within a traditional-oriented prison context.
Speakers
Dr. Juanita Ryan
Digital Technology: Use of Artificial Intelligence in screening for TB for Prison Healthcare (PID046)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Digital Technology: Use of Artificial Intelligence in screening for TB for Prison Healthcare (PID046)
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.
Speakers
Dr. Edwin Prophete
Lunch
12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT
Break
Criteria for Technical Standards in Detention Facilities: With and Among Countries (PID098)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Plenary
Criteria for Technical Standards in Detention Facilities: With and Among Countries (PID098)
Parallel Plenary
Prison authorities in Latin America and the ICRC wish to share with ICPA members the Criteria for Technical Standards in Detention Facilities (CETIP) which are being developed within the region.
Through the description of the work the presentation will seek to share the importance of defining essential procedures and activities to accompany design standards and specifications to ensure that the operation of a place of detention matches the intention of its design in ensuring that the conditions for and treatment of detainees meet international standards and norms.
Speakers
Massimo Russo
Alejandro Marambio
Marcus Vinicius de Amorim Bohmgahrem
Deyvidi de Lima Alves
External Prison Oversight, Human Rights and the Pandemic: International Perspectives (PID096)
1.30pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Plenary
External Prison Oversight, Human Rights and the Pandemic: International Perspectives (PID096)
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.Speakers
Dr. Ivan Zinger JD., PhD.
Michael Horowitz
Fiona Rafter LLB LLM EMPA
The Effect of Global Crises on Countries Struggling with Violence and/or Conflict - the Resilience of Prison Services (PID100)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Plenary
The Effect of Global Crises on Countries Struggling with Violence and/or Conflict - the Resilience of Prison Services (PID100)
Parallel Plenary
The ICRC, and some of the prison authorities they work with, will present a reflection on the impact of global crises on countries already struggling with conflict and other forms of violence.
The sacrifice of many human lives in overcrowded and under-resourced places of detention around the world that was predicted with the advent of COVID-19 largely did not occur as feared. What contributed to the resilience of the prison systems? Why were things not as bad as initially feared?
These reflections will be followed by a Question & Answer session in which the audience can ask their questions in Spanish, French or English.
The session will be developed in partnership with the African Correctional Services Association (ACSA) and various Director Generals and Commissioner Generals of Prison Services.
Speakers
Yves Guimont
Anthony Hassall
Stephen James Johnston
Zoia Khasia
Dieudonné Koyenga
Maria Noel Rodriguez Tochetti
Coffee Break and Exhibition
3pm – 3.30pm EDT
Break
Pandemic, prison and education: challenges and accomplishments of exercising a human right in Argentine prisons (PID064)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Pandemic, prison and education: challenges and accomplishments of exercising a human right in Argentine prisons (PID064)
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.Speakers
Jorgelina Correa Andrade
Dealing with old prison infrastructure to improve condition of detention: operation and maintenance (PID041)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Dealing with old prison infrastructure to improve condition of detention: operation and maintenance (PID041)
Parallel Workshops
Building on decades of experience in many countries around the world, the International Committee of the Red Cross has developed a unique expertise in visiting prison facilities and improving their conditions.
Although significant differences can be observed in prison systems across Africa, national authorities are most often faced with the challenge of infrastructure that does not meet the needs and objectives of the prison system.
Although significant differences can be observed in prison systems across Africa, national authorities are most often faced with the challenge of infrastructure that does not meet the needs and objectives of the prison system.
To complement the collaboration at national level, the ICRC organizes workshops with prison authorities from 30 English and French speaking African countries (Dakar in 2017, Addis Ababa 2018, Tunis in 2019, Kigali 2020, Kenya and Abidjan planned for June and November 2022), focusing on prison infrastructure. This session will emphasize on what can be done to improve operation and maintenance.
Speakers
ACP Dan Obiero
Geert de Vries
Five Minute Intervention – Every Contact with an in inmate counts - Across the globe and during COVID-19 (PID047)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Five Minute Intervention – Every Contact with an in inmate counts - Across the globe and during COVID-19 (PID047)
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.Speakers
Renee Van Aaken
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Correctional Facilities During COVID Times: Highlighting Changes, Innovations, and Opportunities for Growth (PID080)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Correctional Facilities During COVID Times: Highlighting Changes, Innovations, and Opportunities for Growth (PID080)
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.Speakers
Caralee Anderson RN. BScN.
Racial Bias and Amelioration Strategies for Risk Assessment (PID083)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Racial Bias and Amelioration Strategies for Risk Assessment (PID083)
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.Speakers
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
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)
Parallel Workshops
The First Platform In The World That Enables Prisoners To Sell Their Products Online
Jordanian prison authorities launched an e-store that empowers prisoners to sell their products which have been made inside the prisons with in training programs to achieve a financial return makes them get involved once again in modern labor market after they released.
Speakers
Dr. Mahmoud Alkyam PhD.
Applying Human Rights Based Approach in Georgian Penitentiary System During COVID-19 Global Pandemic (PID062)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Applying Human Rights Based Approach in Georgian Penitentiary System During COVID-19 Global Pandemic (PID062)
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.Speakers
Natia Berianidze
Correctional facility design, post pandemic: lessons learned from health facility design (PID035)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Correctional facility design, post pandemic: lessons learned from health facility design (PID035)
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.Speakers
The Little Things Matter: A Lived-Experience Study in Cell Design + Lessons and opportunities from the pandemic (PID085)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
The Little Things Matter: A Lived-Experience Study in Cell Design + Lessons and opportunities from the pandemic (PID085)
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.Speakers
Dr. Kevin Bradley
Jason Hinds
Developments in violence risk assessment in The Netherlands (PID156)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Developments in violence risk assessment in The Netherlands (PID156)
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.
Speakers
Toon Molleman
Monique Schippers
Going Beyond Walls and Borders – Accelerating Ops-Tech Transformation with People, Data and Networks (PID155)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Going Beyond Walls and Borders – Accelerating Ops-Tech Transformation with People, Data and Networks (PID155)
Parallel Workshops
A decade ago, Gartner advised IT leaders to prepare for the converging, aligning and integrating of IT and OT environments in their organisations. Today, this convergence is the core Industry 4.0. This presentation is a follow up on my presentation at ICPA 3 years ago. I will cover the operational benefits of capitalising on this synergy in the area of physical security and facilities management and share with you the strategies adopted to achieve this capability.
We have implemented a new 5G Integrated Command Centre (ICC) at AETOS, which is also the first of its kind that offers unified capabilities for security and facilities management. The ICC aims to adopt metaverse applications that will expand the organization’s capabilities beyond security. Unlimited data from security, safety and building management systems can now be fed into an AI alert-based automated workflow process, and visualised in a real-time digital twin environment. Operators will then spend more time on decision-making and solving issues instead of having to decipher individual datasets. Enabling Ai powered predictive maintenance also reduces disruptions to our critical security operations. With the 3D digital twin, the ICC platform is an example of how industry 4.0 and digital twin can transform and unify security and business operations.
This presentation aims to show that the concept presented 3 years ago can and has become reality and that Corrections facilities will benefit from implementing such systems.
Speakers
Ser Leng Kuai
Wednesday 26 October
Opening Ceremony and Regional Day Welcome
8.45am – 9am EDT
Plenary
The Scandinavian Prison Project: Implementing Scandinavian Correctional Policies in the United States (PID094)
9am – 9.45am EDT
Plenary
The Scandinavian Prison Project: Implementing Scandinavian Correctional Policies in the United States (PID094)
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.Speakers
Adapting the Public Health-Focused Norwegian Resource Team Model to End Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons (PID138)
9.45am – 10.30am EDT
Plenary
Adapting the Public Health-Focused Norwegian Resource Team Model to End Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons (PID138)
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.Speakers
Coffee Break and Exhibition
10.30am – 11am EDT
Break
Correctional Health is Public Health: How the Correctional Service of Canada Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID027)
11am – 11.30am EDT
Parallel Workshops
Correctional Health is Public Health: How the Correctional Service of Canada Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID027)
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.Speakers
Chris Clement
Dr. Kathy Suh
Why Transitional Healthcare is the New “Re-Entry” (PID036)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Workshops
Why Transitional Healthcare is the New “Re-Entry” (PID036)
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.Speakers
Christine Daniel
Breaking Bad: Why Good Staff Do Bad Things Identifying Risk Factors and Implementing a Prevention Plan (PID084)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Workshops
Mothers on the Rise: Supporting Mother/Baby Pairs Transitioning from a Prison Nursery to Community (PID015)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Workshops
Mothers on the Rise: Supporting Mother/Baby Pairs Transitioning from a Prison Nursery to Community (PID015)
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.Speakers
Dr. Jack Turman Jr.
PA DOC: System Expansion of Remote Zoom Visits and OJJDP COIP Second Chance Grant (PID022)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Workshops
PA DOC: System Expansion of Remote Zoom Visits and OJJDP COIP Second Chance Grant (PID022)
Parallel Workshops
Learn about an innovative idea funded by an over $680,000 federal 3-year grant to the PA DOC to connect minor children to their incarcerated parents through virtual reality in two components. It will be used for the child and incarcerated parent to experience a VR adventure, like a balloon ride, at the same time through a Zoom visit to create bonding and have fun together. The child will experience this remote visit at a community provider who will offer support to the family. The second component is where the incarcerated parent will roleplay by talking to an avatar child within the parenting program lessons to build their parenting skillsets. Penn State University is the evaluator of this project ending 9/30/2023. A VR demo will be offered to audience volunteers to experience an immersion and for the audience to consider VR applications for their environments. We will also discuss the agency’s work to expand remote visits from end of life and funeral to approved family and friend.
Speakers
Deb Sahd
Ethan Moeller
Outbreak Management at the Correctional Service of Canada (PID019)
11.30am – 12pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Outbreak Management at the Correctional Service of Canada (PID019)
Parallel Workshops
A significant element that the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) had to coordinate was the management of incarcerated individuals in case of an outbreak, notably by creating isolation zones for positive cases and for contacts at high risk of transmission. This population management strategy, when deployed as soon as we get a COVID-19 positive result for an inmate, allowed CSC to limit the transmission of the virus to a unit, a range or a cohort, preventing the outbreak to spread in the entire institution.
The purpose of this presentation is to share the practices that were implemented with respect to Infection Prevention and Control measures in a correctional environment. Among the measures retained for the future, we can mention education (for both staff and inmates) on basic infection prevention measures, prompt management of populations (high risk of transmission or outbreak situations) and strategic vision for infrastructure improvement applicable in secluded living environment.
Speakers
Chris Clement
Dr. Kathy Suh
United Nations Rapid Assessment Tool and Supplemental User Guidance for Prison Healthcare
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
United Nations Rapid Assessment Tool and Supplemental User Guidance for Prison Healthcare
Parallel Workshops
We are seeking your inputs to improving health care in detention!! Can you help?
The pandemic has taught us that establishing adequate healthcare systems within prison facilities is a greater priority for nations than ever. Without a system to respond to the healthcare needs of incarcerated persons, the community’s health is negatively impacted, particularly in the control and management of infectious diseases.
The pandemic has taught us that establishing adequate healthcare systems within prison facilities is a greater priority for nations than ever. Without a system to respond to the healthcare needs of incarcerated persons, the community’s health is negatively impacted, particularly in the control and management of infectious diseases.
In partnership, Health through Walls and the United Nations has led the development and testing of a practical tool for rapidly assessing prison health conditions in low resource countries. The tool is supported by a comprehensive supplemental user guide. This will improve healthcare delivery for incarcerated persons in low resource countries an enhance the capacity to control and manage infectious diseases in places of detention in low resource settings.
Speakers
Impacts and Innovations: The American Correctional Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID012)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Impacts and Innovations: The American Correctional Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (PID012)
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.
Speakers
The Pandemic Gender Gap Behind Bars and Lessons for the Future (PID075)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
The Pandemic Gender Gap Behind Bars and Lessons for the Future (PID075)
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.Speakers
Prof. Michele Deitch
Alycia Welch
Digital Offender Education and Family Visitation During the Pandemic (PID026)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Digital Offender Education and Family Visitation During the Pandemic (PID026)
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.Speakers
Katherine Cole
Wastewater Surveillance and Outbreak Prediction (PID025)
12pm – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Wastewater Surveillance and Outbreak Prediction (PID025)
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.Speakers
Chris Clement
Dr. Kathy Suh
Lunch
12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT
Break
Inmate Population Stratification through Specialized Prisons (PID133)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Plenary
Inmate Population Stratification through Specialized Prisons (PID133)
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.Speakers
Covid: A reset for American Corrections? (PID009)
1.30pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Plenary
Covid: A reset for American Corrections? (PID009)
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.Speakers
Bernie Warner
Scott Semple
John E. Wetzel
Rick Raemisch
Lauren-Brooke (L.B.) Eisen
Emergency Management in a Correctional Setting (PID135)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Plenary
Emergency Management in a Correctional Setting (PID135)
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.Speakers
Todd Sharpe
Martin Boone
Coffee Break and Exhibition
3pm – 3.30pm EDT
Break
Klinik Solidarite - Providing Healthcare to HIV Positive Former Prisoner’s and Their Partners in Vulnerable Areas of Haiti (PID023)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Klinik Solidarite - Providing Healthcare to HIV Positive Former Prisoner’s and Their Partners in Vulnerable Areas of Haiti (PID023)
Parallel Workshops
The identification of HIV positive patients in custody in the Haitian prison system has never been more important. Health through Walls in partnership with the Aids Healthcare Foundation has led ground-breaking work to enable positive health outcomes for incarcerated persons upon release from prison, that extends to their families, and their communities more broadly. Against a backdrop of political unrest, gang crime, natural disasters, the COVOID-19 pandemic, and the kidnapping of civilians, the partnership has established robust clinical pathways that are significantly impacting the public health of the Haitian community. From 2014 to 2017 Klinik Solidarite has been using these strategies to reach the community targeted. Since 2017, the Ministry of Health retrieved our strategy, added new indicator or questions and is now being used across all sites in the country. We would very much like to share our experience and learning with you.
Speakers
Dr. Greggory Baguidy
Shaping Success for Women: A Gender-Responsive, Technology-based Approach for Reentry (PID093)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Shaping Success for Women: A Gender-Responsive, Technology-based Approach for Reentry (PID093)
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.Speakers
CCWORK protocol: a longitudinal study of Canadian Correctional Workers’ Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge (PID142)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
CCWORK protocol: a longitudinal study of Canadian Correctional Workers’ Well-being, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge (PID142)
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.
Speakers
Prof. Rosemary Ricciardelli
Marcella Siqueira Cassiano PhD.
Honor Units, What Prison Culture Can Be (PID095)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Honor Units, What Prison Culture Can Be (PID095)
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.Speakers
Dean Williams
Amber Pedersen
Cracking the Code: Innovation and Technology . . . Beyond the Pandemic, and Beyond the Gate (PID078)
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Cracking the Code: Innovation and Technology . . . Beyond the Pandemic, and Beyond the Gate (PID078)
Parallel Workshops
The workshop will highlight the partnership between Persevere and the Arizona Department of Corrections, the innovation Director David Shinn led and is leading within the department both during and post pandemic. Persevere is a national 501(c)3 organization with a mission to empower our students to change their lives, their families and their communities through technology education, life skills development, employment, and wraparound services. We do this by teaching a 12 month coding bootcamp certifitying our students as Full-Stack Developers and preparing them for a career in Tech.
Come and see how Persevere is revolutionizing the way programming is done, providing cutting edge technology education and placing an impressive 94% of program graduates in technology jobs after release.
Come and see how Persevere is revolutionizing the way programming is done, providing cutting edge technology education and placing an impressive 94% of program graduates in technology jobs after release.
Speakers
Test & Treat+3: Victory at La Victoria, the largest penitentiary facility in the Caribbean (PID063)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Test & Treat+3: Victory at La Victoria, the largest penitentiary facility in the Caribbean (PID063)
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!Speakers
Grace Butler
Col. Lic. Roberto Hernández Basilio
Reducing Tension Inside Prisons in Mexico: The 'Respect Module', a model promoted through humanitarian partnerships for Women Deprived of Liberty (PID129)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Reducing Tension Inside Prisons in Mexico: The 'Respect Module', a model promoted through humanitarian partnerships for Women Deprived of Liberty (PID129)
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.Speakers
Oscar Ayzanoa Vigil
Gabriela Ceron
Contributing to Good Corrections through Applied Research: 35 Years in Review (PID033)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Contributing to Good Corrections through Applied Research: 35 Years in Review (PID033)
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.Speakers
Dr. Frank Porporino PhD.
Larry Motiuk PhD
Experiences Beyond Recidivism: Conducting Oral Histories with Formerly Incarcerated Individuals in Washington State (PID092)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Can digital platforms improve safety and wellbeing in community corrections? (PID118)
4.15pm – 5pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Can digital platforms improve safety and wellbeing in community corrections? (PID118)
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.
Speakers
Jenn Luther
ICPA Correctional Excellence Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner
7.30pm – 11.30pm EDT
Gala Dinner
Thursday 27 October
Institution-based normalization: bringing humanizing, destigmatizing, and harm reduction focused concepts inside the walls (PID088)
9am – 9.45am EDT
Parallel Plenary
Institution-based normalization: bringing humanizing, destigmatizing, and harm reduction focused concepts inside the walls (PID088)
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.Speakers
The Intersection of Correctional Business and Technology – The Opportunity and Roadblocks (PID149)
9am – 10.30am EDT
Parallel Plenary
The Intersection of Correctional Business and Technology – The Opportunity and Roadblocks (PID149)
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.
Speakers
Caron McCaffrey
Håkan Klarin
Arun Vanapalli
Peter Buelens
Community Mobilisation to Support Offenders, Ex-offenders and their Families – Opportunities during and after the pandemic (PID050)
9.45am – 10.30am EDT
Parallel Plenary
Community Mobilisation to Support Offenders, Ex-offenders and their Families – Opportunities during and after the pandemic (PID050)
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.Speakers
Assoc. Prof. Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim
Coffee Break and Exhibition
10.30am – 11am EDT
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Key outcomes and recommendations of the PO21 Prison Officer of the 21st Century initiative: new profiles, competencies and training for correctional officers (PID104)
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.
Speakers
Tiago Leitão
Pre-trial detention in the European Union: prior challenges and new solutions (PID061)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Workshops
Pre-trial detention in the European Union: prior challenges and new solutions (PID061)
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.Speakers
Pedro Liberado
Challenges and Barriers for CSC's Volunteer Program (PID024)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Workshops
Challenges and Barriers for CSC's Volunteer Program (PID024)
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.Speakers
Katherine Cole
Keeping Your Detention Facilities Out of the Ditches and on the Right Path (PID001)
11am – 11.45am EDT
Parallel Workshops
Keeping Your Detention Facilities Out of the Ditches and on the Right Path (PID001)
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.
Speakers
Jim Martin
Digital Transformation in Prisons (PID153)
11am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Digital Transformation in Prisons (PID153)
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.
Speakers
Patricia O’Hagan MBE
Dave Lageweg
Jerry Brinegar
Christopher Ditto
Håkan Klarin
Digital Transformation in Community Corrections (PID154)
11am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Digital Transformation in Community Corrections (PID154)
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.
Speakers
Jenn Luther
Tom Corwin
Tony Lowden
Alisha Shoates James
Steven Van De Steene
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Improving multi-level correctional staff competencies, enhancing multiagency cooperation, and building on top of best practices during the COVID-19 pandemic (PID091)
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.Speakers
Pedro Liberado
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Managing the remand population: challenges facing correctional services and opportunities for change in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic (PID059)
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.Speakers
Andrea Monteiro
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
Community Corrections Practices Involving Cooperation between Justice Authorities and Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan – Challenges and Tends (PID028)
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.Speakers
Takuya Nakamura
Evaluating the Impact of the Psychological Health Model on the Wellbeing and Mental Health of Frontline Justice Care Professionals (PID106)
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Evaluating the Impact of the Psychological Health Model on the Wellbeing and Mental Health of Frontline Justice Care Professionals (PID106)
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).Speakers
Emma Bell
Reducing workplace stress through the development of better leadership skills: the outcomes of the LEADCOR project (PID101)
12pm – 12.30pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Reducing workplace stress through the development of better leadership skills: the outcomes of the LEADCOR project (PID101)
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.
Speakers
Kathleen Van De Vijver
Sam Erry
Lunch
12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT
Break
The Breakaway - the first e-cycling team for prisoners (PID008)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
The Breakaway - the first e-cycling team for prisoners (PID008)
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.Speakers
Pieter Van Caeneghem
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 EDT
Parallel Workshops
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)
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.
Speakers
Dr. Tashima Ricks DNP, RN, PHCNS-BC
Drug Detect Project (PID143)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Drug Detect Project (PID143)
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.
Speakers
Dr. Ramona Apostol
Driving Legislative Compliance in Structured Intervention Units Using Real-time Operational Reporting (PID031)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Driving Legislative Compliance in Structured Intervention Units Using Real-time Operational Reporting (PID031)
Parallel Workshops
Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) were introduced to the Canadian Federal Penitentiary System in November of 2019. The legislation that covers these units included a number of new standards including minimum requirements for time out of cell and meaningful interaction. During the pandemic, it became important to maintain oversight of these new elements and help sites to improve performance while at the same time working through all the issues and restrictions the pandemic presented. Thus, a series of real-time operational reports were developed to assist sites using a data visualization tool (PowerBI).
These reports focused on offers of activities, actual time spent on activities, and the type of activities that were being offered in SIUs with the objective of showing whether or not SIUs were within the standards indicated in the legislation. This presentation will show these reports, discuss their development and use throughout the pandemic, and illustrate how using these types of reports can assist with achieving legislative compliance.
Speakers
Dr. Leslie-Anne Keown
Project on Integration of Smart Technologies into Prisons (PID074)
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Project on Integration of Smart Technologies into Prisons (PID074)
Parallel Workshops
Within the scope of the project on ‘Integration of Smart Technologies into the Prisons’; it is aimed that various services carried out by staff in prisons are to be realized through the multimedia device installed in prisoner’s cells with an innovative and groundbreaking application.
A developable design is preferred for multimedia device and the system comprise services as library, canteen, daily prisoner count, electronic letter, voice and video call, telemedicine and ‘Ministry Communication Applications’ (services such as voice and video call, petition sending directly to Ministry) has been developed in the first phase. In the second phase of the project, many innovative applications such as video call with lawyer (e-lawyer) and e-notification are planned to be implemented.
A developable design is preferred for multimedia device and the system comprise services as library, canteen, daily prisoner count, electronic letter, voice and video call, telemedicine and ‘Ministry Communication Applications’ (services such as voice and video call, petition sending directly to Ministry) has been developed in the first phase. In the second phase of the project, many innovative applications such as video call with lawyer (e-lawyer) and e-notification are planned to be implemented.
Speakers
Fatih Güngör
My Life Behind Bars (PID020)
1.30pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
My Life Behind Bars (PID020)
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.Speakers
The Incidence Of Star Offenders In Nigeria Custodial Centres: A Case Study Of Ado-Ekiti Custodial Centre, Nigeria (PID126)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
The Incidence Of Star Offenders In Nigeria Custodial Centres: A Case Study Of Ado-Ekiti Custodial Centre, Nigeria (PID126)
Parallel Workshops
Star offenders can still have their stars shining provided they are not locked up without due consideration.Speakers
Dr. Oluwarotimi Babalola MBA DVM
Oluwayomi Agubiade
Kelvin Ugwuuoke
Disrupting movement of contraband through prisons (PID068)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Disrupting movement of contraband through prisons (PID068)
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.
Speakers
Stefan Hale
Prototype of an integrated data management system for a successful rehabilitation in Chile (PID011)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
Prototype of an integrated data management system for a successful rehabilitation in Chile (PID011)
Parallel Workshops
Based on a multi disciplinary research team, the problem that the project seeks to face is the lack of systematic self-observation of the prison system regarding critical barriers in the area of reintegration of inmates –both internal to the prison system and external to it—which results in the fact that various key indicators and processes related to reintegration are invisible or appear fragmented or late, thereby limiting the possibilities for both effective and timely decision-making and the gathering of evidence around critical issues that affect social reintegration.
Findings from this project will serve to generate an integrated monitoring and management prototype for effective social reintegration through a technological platform, which is based both on existing information (eg: Gendarmerie administrative records) and on primary data (from mixed nature - qualitative and quantitative -) necessary to collect, analyze and make visible for the various regions of the country.
Speakers
Dr. Guillermo Sanhueza
New Encounters from the Frontline: Technology Assisted Literacy and Language Learning (PID103)
2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Parallel Workshops
New Encounters from the Frontline: Technology Assisted Literacy and Language Learning (PID103)
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.Speakers
Dr. Christina White Prosser
Coffee Break and Exhibition
3pm – 3.30pm EDT
Break
Panel: Participants Perspectives on the ICPA Florida 2022 Conference
3.30pm – 4.30pm EDT
Plenary
Closing Session and Conclusions
4.30pm – 5pm EDT
Plenary
Closing Session and Conclusions
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
Speakers
Friday 28 October
Prison/Facility Visits
9am – 5pm EDT
Prison/Facility Visits
