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With around 300 speakers and more than 150 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 2023 Programme
Monday 23 October
11am – 11.30am
Women in Prison and Previous Victimization: The Need for a Partnership with Women's Shelters (PID165)
Workshop Session
With Good Reason: A Study of the Alignment of Prison Conditions in Bolivia and Honduras with the Nelson Mandela Rules (PID151)
Workshop Session
11am – 11.45am
Prison Family Unit - A Therapeutical Environment for Babies and Parents (PID034)
Workshop Session
Ghana Prisons Surgical Project - A Tool For Creating Humane Corrections - Medium Security Prisons, Nsawam As A Case Study (PID213)
Workshop Session
11am – 12.30pm
Practice Transfer Taskforce and Case Study: Can the Global Game Help Solve the Global Problem of Recidivism? (PID222)
Workshop Session
Enhancing the Resilience of Prison Management During Times of War (PID224)
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm
The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach (PID139)
Workshop Session
‘Not Just Another New Prison Building’: A New Prison Delivering a Psychologically Informed Operating Model (PID058)
Workshop Session
11.45am – 12.30pm
Advancing Humane Treatment: Determining Baseline Prevalence of TB and Associated Conditions in Mozambiques Prisons (PID180)
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm
Alvis Family & Children's Program, a Community Re-entry Program that Serves Justice Involved Mothers and their Children (PID091)
Workshop Session
Improving Prison Environments to Maximize Inmate Outcomes (PID069)
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2.15pm
The Council of Europe: How to Make the Imprisonment Effective and Humane at the Same Time? (PID062)
Plenary Session
2.15pm – 3pm
Iso: Perspectives on Solitary Confinement Practices in the Netherlands (PID209)
Plenary Session
3.30pm – 4pm
Bringing Human Rights to Correctional Policy and Practice in Kenya (PID006)
Workshop Session
High Risk Offenders in the Dutch Prison System (PID208)
Workshop Session
A Collaborative Approach to Success: Family, Community and Employer Engagement (PID130)
Workshop Session
Segregation Reform: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? (PID131)
Workshop Session
San Diego, California - Juvenile Justice Continuum of Care from Community Interventions to State of the Art Detention Facility (PID081)
Workshop Session
Transforming Incarceration: The Impact of Technology on Daily Life Behind Bars (PID900)
Major Sponsor Presentation
4pm – 4.30pm
Malaysia Prison Reform Towards the "Civilized Humane Culture Development Center" (CHCDC) (PID051)
Workshop Session
Pretrial Detention Needs Rethink (PID103)
Workshop Session
Uplifting Offenders Through Skills Training and Employability Programmes (PID143)
Workshop Session
4.30pm – 5pm
A Scottish Case Study Using Mandela Rules to Enshrine Human Rights, Mental & Behavioural Wellbeing and Rehabilitation (PID044)
Workshop Session
Learning Lessons from the UK's Recent Experience of Populist Criminal Justice Policies (PID065)
Workshop Session
3P: Placement, Productivity and Pay for Foreign Inmates In Reintegration Center (IRC), Malaysia Prison Department (PID023)
Workshop Session
Paradigm Shift: A Model for Eliminating Restrictive Housing in the United States (PID057)
Workshop Session
"I even forgot I was in prison" REEDU’s Inclusive Education Methodology for Juvenile Detention: Theory and Practice (PID176)
Workshop Session
A Modified Delphi Exercise to Develop Best Practice Principles for Programs and Services for People Exiting Custody (PID169)
Workshop Session
Tuesday 24 October
9.30am – 10.30am
IACFP Distinguished Scholar Lecture - "Dignity and Identity Between Individual, Institutional and Societal Interests" (PID220)
Plenary Session
11am – 11.30am
How Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Correctional Staff and Incarcerated Individuals (PID026)
Workshop Session
Evaluation of Home Detention in South Australia (PID038)
Workshop Session
Redefining the Prison Experience for Young Adult Fathers and their Children (PID088)
Workshop Session
Driving a System-level Transformation of the New Zealand Prison System from a Human Rights Foundation (PID152)
Workshop Session
Juvenile Justice and Neurodiversity: Accentuating Multimodal Imperatives and Approaches for Reintegrative Rehabilitation (PID095)
Workshop Session
How a Sustainable Building Embodies Humane Treatment and Promotes Hope and Healing (PID127)
Workshop Session
11am – 12pm
Promoting Humane Corrections: A Call for Compassion in Our Sector (PID901)
Major Sponsor Presentation
11.30am – 12pm
"I'm Tired": Understanding Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout in Correctional Healthcare Staff (PID030)
Workshop Session
Strengthening Assessment in Community Corrections and Implementing Treatment Through Public-private Collaboration (PID050)
Workshop Session
The B.R.A.V.E. Unit: Incarcerated Young Fathers in Massachusetts Prisons (PID173)
Workshop Session
Creating Human Correctional Environments Through Purposeful Activity: The Efforts of Hong Kong Correctional Services (PID135)
Workshop Session
Balancing Human Rights and Community Safety - Reducing Incarceration of People with a Disability (PID172)
Workshop Session
Green Corrections; An Oasis Beyond Caged Walls (PID150)
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm
Perceived Occupational Adversity and the Wellbeing of Community Corrections Officers: International Findings (PID022)
Workshop Session
Assisting Offenders Without Supervision, Especially for Those With Specific Needs (PID007)
Workshop Session
Community Partnership to Support Families and Children of Offenders and Ex-offenders (PID140)
Workshop Session
Neurodiversity-informed Practices in Prison and Probation Services (PID121)
Workshop Session
Greenspace in Prison and Benefits for Prisoner and Staff Wellbeing (PID215)
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2.15pm
Changing Incarceration: A Conversation from the Perspective of Lived Experience (PID189)
Plenary Session
2.15pm – 3pm
Humanity in Detention: What About the Voice of People Deprived of Freedom? (PID207)
Plenary Session
3.30pm – 4pm
Co-Design of Healthcare Policies and Guidelines with People Who Are Incarcerated and Corrections Staff (PID156)
Workshop Session
Transgender Behind Bars (PID101)
Workshop Session
A Decade of Redevelopment – How Clear Vision and Strong Design Objectives Were Achieved in 4 SA Corrections Projects (PID078)
Workshop Session
Access Unlocked: Improving Health Care Access in Adult Correctional Settings in NSW Australia (PID025)
Workshop Session
Custodial Transitions: Are the Needs of Young Adults Being Met in Ireland? (PID032)
Workshop Session
Providing Opportunities for Global Collaboration: The Supervision Around the World Project (PID073)
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Developing an Evidence-Based Application to Improve Wellbeing and Reduce Incidents of Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons (PID902)
Major Sponsor Presentation
4pm – 4.30pm
Reducing Violence in Prisons: Involving the Prisoner Voice and Experience (PID186)
Workshop Session
Digital Desistance and Gender Specific Digital Rehabilitation for Offenders (PID055)
Workshop Session
The Nightmare of Sleep in Prison (PID171)
Workshop Session
Humane Youth Justice: The Challenge of Change (PID174)
Workshop Session
Pūwhakamua: A Tikanga Māori Rehabilitation Success in Reducing Offending and Improving Reintegration in New Zealand (PID021)
Workshop Session
4.30pm – 5pm
Ask Me First: Participant-Led Research to Explore How an Irish Prison Environment Relates to Female Well-Being (PID072)
Workshop Session
Towards Gender Parity: Empowering Women in Corrections and Peacekeeping (PID129)
Workshop Session
Design for Health and Wellbeing: Space and Interior Design in Detention, Special Residential Youth Homes, and Prisons (PID201)
Workshop Session
Computer-Aided Detection (CAD): Using Artificial Intelligence to Provide Humane Treatment in Haitian Prisons (PID199)
Workshop Session
Children Have Human Rights Too: A Comparative Analysis of Correctional Service Staff Training in EU Youth Justice (PID166)
Workshop Session
They All Come Out: Mapping the Desistence Journeys of 200 Men Leaving HM Prison Bullingdon over 18 Months (PID077)
Workshop Session
Wednesday 25 October
9.20am – 9.50am
Towards Improving Humane Detention and Re-integration: New Roles in a New Prison Culture (PID012)
Plenary Session
9.50am – 10.30am
Small Scale Detention: The First Detention House in Belgium (PID003)
Plenary Session
11am – 11.30am
Life After Custody: How to Make it Work? A Belgian Approach of Probation and Community Services (PID206)
Workshop Session
Together, Learning and Thinking about Punishment (PID020)
Workshop Session
Boxing Behind Bars (PID113)
Workshop Session
Drugs and Detention: When Justice and Public Health Come Together to Develop a Model of Care for Incarcerated Users (PID054)
Workshop Session
Educational Center Wortel: A Complicated Marriage Between Restorative Purposes and a Prison System (PID029)
Workshop Session
Documentary Series about Detention as a Lever for Change (PID205)
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm
The Complexity of Re-entry Among Incarcerated People in Flanders and Brussels (Be.): Insights from the BRuG-project Survey (PID125)
Workshop Session
Teaching the Use of the Same Personality Type Tool to Staff and Inmates to Reinforce Dynamic Security Opportunities (PID148)
Workshop Session
Sport in Prison: More than an Individual Tool for Social Reintegration; A Collective Tool for Social Cohesion (PID064)
Workshop Session
Ten Years of PPP in Belgian Prisons: What Opportunities for the Reintegration of Prisoners and their Living Conditions? (PID204)
Workshop Session
Learning Inside Out (LIO) Offers Education and Study Counselling to Inmates in All Prisons in Flanders and Brussels (PID097)
Workshop Session
Good Practices in a Bad Environment (PID060)
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm
How Can We Support Correctional Officer Wellbeing? Mixed Method Results and Recommendations (PID098)
Workshop Session
How, Why, for Whom and Under Which Circumstances Do Participatory Music Programs in Prison Work: Preliminary Findings (PID014)
Workshop Session
Multi-agency Approach of Radicalized Inmates in Belgium (PID108)
Workshop Session
Bridges Outside with Cellmade (PID203)
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2pm
The Implementation of Good Lives Model in Daily Life and Rehabilitation of Offenders (PID001)
Workshop Session
Preventing Aggression: Prevention Strategies and Training of Staff Members in High-security Forensic Psychiatry (PID191)
Workshop Session
When Care Takes it Over: Detainees Growing Older in Dignity (PID217)
Workshop Session
Development of a BelRAI Screener Detention for Correctional Facilities (PID031)
Workshop Session
Prison Foodways in Oudenaarde (PID061)
Workshop Session
The Practice and Promise of Peer Programs in Prison (PID045)
Workshop Session
2pm – 2.30pm
Cooperation as an Answer to the Complexity of Reintegration of Prisoners (PID119)
Workshop Session
Dynamic Security – Yes, We Can! A Lithuanian – Norwegian Partnership to Improve Quality of Lithuanian Prison Service (PID114)
Workshop Session
Community Based Health in Detention - A Model to Improve Health and Wellbeing for People Deprived of their Liberty (PID134)
Workshop Session
Violence Risk Screening in the Prison Setting: Improving Prison Safety and Reducing Violent Recidivism (PID079)
Workshop Session
Humane Corrections: A New Approach for Food in Prison (PID211)
Workshop Session
Peer-led Intervention to Support Clients to Vacate Warrants Following Release from Prison: A Case Study from Canada (PID132)
Workshop Session
2.30pm – 3pm
Michigan Department of Corrections Vocational Village Overview (PID124)
Workshop Session
Safety Dilemmas in Prison Management: Findings from Research on Prison Violence in the Netherlands (PID087)
Workshop Session
Triangle: An International Collaboration (Erasmus+) and Education Project in Prisons (PID010)
Workshop Session
The Risk Screener-Youth. A Novel Tool for Easy and Efficient Evaluation of Recidivism Risk in Juveniles and Young Adults (PID076)
Workshop Session
Supporting Humane Corrections Through the Provision of Books, Libraries and Reading to People Deprived of Liberty (PID019)
Workshop Session
Providing Cell Phones and Peer Support is Effective at Engaging People After Release from Custody in to Hepatitis C Care (PID155)
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4.15pm
Digital Transformation in Belgian Prisons: Improving the Daily Life of Inmates and Staff (PID011)
Plenary Session
7pm – 11pm
Special Event Dinner and ICPA Correctional Excellence Awards Ceremony
Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony
Thursday 26 October
9am – 9.45am
“Humanity is important in prison... it starts with staff”: Lessons Learned from a U.S. Culture Change Training Program (PID040)
Plenary Session
9.45am – 10.30am
Building Community Corrections Capacity: Learning from International Experience (PID210)
Plenary Session
11am – 11.30am
“What else matters…for all of us?” Integrating Relational and Restorative Practices in Corrections by Singapore Prison Service (PID142)
Workshop Session
Singapore’s Gender Responsive Interventions for Women Offenders (PID141)
Workshop Session
You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup: Implementing Peer Support Teams to Improve Corrections Worker Health (PID092)
Workshop Session
Towards the Humane Management of Prison Violence in the Irish Prison Service (PID033)
Workshop Session
The Role of Agency/Facility Culture in Reducing the Use of Isolation in Secure Juvenile Facilities (PID053)
Workshop Session
Civic Engagement Behind Bars: Voting and Voice (PID178)
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm
Restorative Action Planning(C): Teaching Staff & Offenders How to R.A.P. (PID107)
Workshop Session
DRC Prisons: A March Towards Gender Mainstreaming (PID183)
Workshop Session
Correction Officer Stories - The Hidden Voice (PID080)
Workshop Session
Study on Deaths in Chilean Prisons from January 2019 to December 2022. Panorama, Diagnosis and Proposals (PID160)
Workshop Session
The Management of People Serving Life Sentences in Ireland: A Human Rights-based Strategy from Committal to Release (PID047)
Workshop Session
Humanity in Action: Revolutionising Criminal Justice Through a Whole Systems Approach (PID170)
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm
Giving up Crime: Empowering the Prisoner as Owner of the Change Process (PID147)
Workshop Session
Born Out of the ICPA 2022 Meeting: A Multisector Collaboration Addressing Needs of Honduran Women Deprived of Liberty (PID066)
Workshop Session
"Between the Blue and Green": Building Community Cohesion within a Correctional Centre (PID013)
Workshop Session
Serious Injuries on Rikers Island: Improving Violence Prevention in New York City Jails (PID035)
Workshop Session
Prison Audits to Reduce Overcrowding in Prisons in Africa (PID084)
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2pm
Three Countries, Three Uniforms, Three Cultures, One Common Goal - To Improve Correctional Facilities (PID109)
Workshop Session
Towards Freedom – Using Probationary Liberty Under Supervision to Reduce Reoffending and Enhance Desistance (PID112)
Workshop Session
The Benefits and Challenges of Prison Visits: Insights from a Large-scale Dutch Study on Prison Visitation (PID126)
Workshop Session
Enhancing Human-centered Penitentiary System in Georgia (PID128)
Workshop Session
Humanity and Reducing Reoffending Through the Use of Universal Services (PID162)
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2.30pm
Achieving Meaningful Human Rights Reforms in Corrections through External Prison Oversight (PID089)
Workshop Session
2pm – 2.30pm
Moving from Blame to Accountability: Lessons from a State Correctional System (PID181)
Workshop Session
How Can Courtesy Stigma Explain the Visitation Experience of Prison Visitors? (PID093)
Workshop Session
"Smart Prison" in Hong Kong (PID016)
Workshop Session
Human Rights in Indian Prisons: Challenges and Changes in Policy, Procedures and Practices (PID185)
Workshop Session
Together We Create Opportunities and Help People Reform (PID164)
Workshop Session
Alternatives to Imprisonment for Drug-using Offenders: Is There a Need for a Common EU Legal Framework? (PID027)
Workshop Session
Breaking the Cycle of Violence Through Social Integration (PID039)
Workshop Session
Preserving Identity: The Role of Technology in Upholding Religious and Cultural Freedoms for Indigenous Peoples in Prison (PID002)
Workshop Session
Norwegian Correctional Service and Human Rights - Far From a Perfect Match: Examining Challenges and Opportunities (PID188)
Workshop Session
4pm – 4.30pm
All Hands on Deck: Singapore Prison Service’s Correctional Approach (PID221)
Plenary Session
Friday 27 October
Forensic Psychiatric Centre Antwerp
Prison/Facility Visits
