Plenary Session
8.45am – 8.55am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 10 mins
Plenary Session
Plenary Session
8.55am – 9.05am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 10 mins
Plenary Session
Plenary Session
9.05am – 9.15am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 10 mins
Plenary Session
Plenary Session
9.15am – 9.25am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 10 mins
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Plenary Session
9.25am – 9.30am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Plenary Session
Plenary Session
9.30am – 10.30am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Plenary Session
Break and Exhibition
10.30am – 11am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Break and Exhibition
Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
A prison sentence affects the whole family. Separation from a parent affects the child, especially when the child is small. Parenting can also be a main factor in rehabilitation. The Prison Family Unit supports the parent during the sentence and at the same time builds multidisciplinary support network for release. In cooperation between the prison and the Family Unit, parenting can be supported, encouraged and strengthened. The goal is to break the intergenerational cycle of crime.Senior Specialist, Core Operations, Prison and Probation Service of Finland, Finland
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11am – 11.30am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
11am – 12.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins
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Head of Prison Industries, Catering and Physical Education, HM Prison Service, United Kingdom
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Forensic Psychology, University of Chichester, The Open University, England, United Kingdom
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Pro Vice Chancellor, Research Lead Custodial Health, The University of Newcastle, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, Australia
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Admissions with elective surgical cases diagnoses were common and comparable to previously published rates of disease in the general population, but low rates of surgical wound infection and re-occurrence rate. it is an ethical obligation to better understand opportunities for improvement in access to care, provide equivalent operations and postoperative attention, as well as strive for robust data collection to prove equivalent excellent outcomes in the incarcerated population.Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The underpinning principles of Home, Health and Homeliness promotes communal responsibility and identifies individual needs, creating individualised resettlement programs where families are supported and self agency encouraged. Prisoner engagement is achieved by our compact with prisoners to take ownership through our 'no decisions about me without me' procedures. Resettlement Services provided by a diverse mix of community organisations (including those with 'lived experience') as a central part of the multi-disciplinary teams. Extensive use of Release on Temporary Licence supports education, work and employment provision for those who meet the criteria. Education links directly with employers criterion and employers provide training workshops within the prison. Staff skills and training developed to create competence and confidence with new environment and requirements. An 'offence neutral' regime is operated where sex offenders are able to achieve their resettlement goals alongside others. A Non-Executive Board of external experts (including those with 'lived experience') provides additional scrutiny and oversight to the Director on a regular basis.Workshop Session
11.45am – 12.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
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Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Professor, International Health Policy and Practice, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Researcher, Institute of Addiction Research, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Researcher, Institute of Addiction Research, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Mozambique’s high burden of tuberculosis (TB) impacts delivering healthcare in its prisons. Our project uses an integrated care model to strengthen the process by which incarcerated people with TB are identified, treated, and linked to care. Program planning depends on an accurate understanding of baseline conditions, and this has informed our prison to community program design. As a result of our health blitz of 6000 individuals in the first three months of operation, we anticipate prison prevalence of TB and associated co-morbidities are higher than currently documented. We anticipate that healthcare activities, including peer mentoring and disease prevention strategies (e.g. consideration of PREP/condoms etc.) will be introduced as a result of the program interventions, that access to services will increase, and that staff and detainee stigma will reduce. Please come and join us to understand what we did, and to make suggestions for next steps!National Director, Health Care Service, Mozambique Prison Service, Mozambique
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Educational Psychologist, Consultant, Management & Training Corporation, United States
Director of Corrections Programs, Management and Training Corporation, United States
Lunch and Exhibition
12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Lunch and Exhibition
Plenary Session
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Plenary Session
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), Council of Europe, France
Plenary Session
2.15pm – 3pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Plenary Session
Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and Independent Consultant, Solitary Confinement, United Kingdom
Deputy Director, Division of Prisons and Foreigner Detention, Ministry of Justice and Safety, Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, Netherlands
Break and Exhibition
3pm – 3.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Break and Exhibition
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
The concept of normalisation in the built environment is emerging as a means to support the focus on treatment and rehabilitation. Many architects and planners are demonstrating the use of a normalised environments in very different ways that reflect the local culture and norms. This discussion will use new correctional facilities in three significantly different locations in Canada to define the similarities and differences based on local culture.Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Thematic Leader, Access to Justice, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden
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3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The longer the time spent in prison without trial, the more the chance of a fair trial fades; evidence goes stale, witnesses move or disappear, and the pressure on people to plead guilty increases as people wish to put an end to the uncertainty over their future. While legal and paralegal assistance is a key part of the answer, there are other remedies also. For example, there may be scope for diverting certain kinds of cases out of the criminal justice system altogether, so that they are dealt with through restorative processes.Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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This panel explores barriers to and enablers of reforming the use of segregation, with a focus on staff perceptions of their environment, their safety and wellbeing, and their leadership. The opening presentation will describe some of the issues driving calls for reform and will discuss selected aspects of correctional culture, operations, and leadership. These comments will be informed by work undertaken in several Canadian jurisdictions. The following two presentations will report on staff and prisoner reactions to specific change initiatives: one in Canada and one in the USA. All three presentations will conclude with thoughts about how to implement and sustain meaningful change.Research Chair, Safety, Security, and Wellness Professor, School Maritime Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Professor, Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology, United States
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Executive Director, Correctional Management Institute of Texas, Sam Houston State University, United States
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3.30pm – 4.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
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Executive Director, Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators (CJJA), United States
Major Sponsor Presentation
3.30pm – 4.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Major Sponsor Presentation
In this presentation, Christopher Ditto, ViaPath Vice President of Research & Development, will share, through data extracted from 20+ billion minutes of prisoner tablet use, and extensive prisoner interviews, how the daily experience of incarcerated persons, including parenting, self esteem, and aggression, is impacted by resources, entertainment and communications options provided by interactive digital devices.Chief Information Officer, Director, Information Technology Division, New Mexico Corrections Department and Past-President, Corrections Technology Association, USA
Workshop Session
4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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HMP Barlinnie is the largest prison in Scotland, first opened in 1882 and housed the most infamous criminals of the time. Despite various attempts to refurbish the prison, its decaying state took the Scottish Government to announce in 2018 its closure. For the new prison project, the Scottish Prison Service relied on the Mandela rules and a research-based practice to design a human centred facility, radically changing the way corrections are done in Scotland. HMP Glasgow is the new prison in Scotland that is paving the way to show what more can we do to achieve more humane corrections. This is the Scottish Prison Service story of challenges, setbacks, budget constraints, divergent interpretations, and perspectives from all involved in the making of this ambitious, humane and human-centred correctional project.Governor, HMP Barlinnie, Scottish Prison Services, Scotland, United Kingdom
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4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The establishment of the Civilized Humane Culture Development Center (CHCDC) is not meant to be the new prison, but instead it involves efforts to improve the existing prison environment to a more humane rehabilitation environment. It requires a large-scale paradigm shift involving various holistic efforts and mechanisms that need to be done systematically. Malaysia Prison Department always believed and have faith that we have been given a great task in order to make the inmates succeed in life after their release and never re offend. Let our correctional system be a part in establishing a civilized and humane culture development center. Having such conference like ICPA is also a good way of sharing and bringing us closer together in our endeavors to implement programs and to upgrade our correctional system.Commissioner General of Prison, Malaysia Prison Department, Malaysia
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4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Program Manager, Custodial Institutions Agency, Ministry of Justice and Security, Netherlands
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4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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This sharing covers Singapore Prison Service (SPS)’s and Yellow Ribbon Singapore (YRSG)’s collaborative efforts in providing skills training and education for inmates, with the aim to enhance ex-offenders’ employability potential, promote lifelong learning, skills deepening, and long-term career development. These initiatives include upskilling offenders in digital skills, expanding academic pathways and training academies in prison, as well as allowing offenders to take up employability enhancing programmes while on community-based programmes.Senior Correctional Rehabilitation Specialist (CRS), Singapore Prison Service, Singapore
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4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Director of Special Programs, Massachusetts Department of Correction, United States
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4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Researcher, Project Coordinator, Bremen Ministry of Justice and Constitution, Germany
Deputy Director General of Prison and Probation, Bremen Ministry of Justice and Constitution, Germany
Workshop Session
4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 23 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Pro Vice Chancellor, Research Lead Custodial Health, The University of Newcastle, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, Australia
Network Group Discussions
8.15am – 9.15am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Network Group Discussions
Plenary Session
9.30am – 10.30am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Plenary Session
Emeritus Professor of Criminology, Penology and Sociology of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Break and Exhibition
10.30am – 11am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Break and Exhibition
Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Executive Director, Offender Development, Government of South Australia Department for Correctional Services, Australia
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11am – 11.30am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Director of Special Programs, Massachusetts Department of Correction, United States
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11am – 11.30am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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11am – 11.30am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The concept of neurodiversity has already taken centerstage in Malaysia, yet the understanding is merely superficial even otherworldly, especially in the juvenile justice platform. With the disproportionately significant prevalence of youth with neurodiversity in juvenile justice system, the concern nuances within those relevant parties, specifically when the issue of youth with neurodivergent spectrum being discussed, on how to deal with them appositely. Neurodivergent juvenile delinquents, aged 14 to 21, need specific and objective-driven interventions with neurodiversity as the focal point, and being penalized even institutionalized in penitentiary without proper and effectual intervention based on their neurodivergent needs somehow ineffectively ensure them to be given rehabilitation needed. There is an exigent demand for reviewing a justifiable and effective rehabilitative program that cater their needs to avoid inefficient and inept interventions being implemented onto them. Rather than dehumanizing and misappropriation in nature of existing correctional approach, proper intervention in accordance with their neurodivergent attributes may lead towards cultivating pro-social environment plus developing social and interpersonal skills towards reintegration. The emphasis will be given onto multiple factors from taxonomical classification, systemic features, risk-needs attributes, and socio-cultural elements. Thus, to have an adequate efficacious method that is ‘neurodivergent-friendly’, from pre-trial assessments to program development analysis, implementation as well as monitoring, to evaluation and fading process for reintegration as a final point may be considered as more proper interventions, not only on the basis of more humanizing approach, but also to ensure their rights for receiving effective need-based and person-oriented rehabilitation are protected and well-looked-after.Assistant Social Development Officer, Department of Social Welfare Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Chief Executive, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network NSW, Australia
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Persons who are justice-involved often present with complex social and healthcare needs in the setting of complex justice systems. The correctional healthcare staff in which they interact have the potential to develop secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout. While the three terms are conceptually different, all three have the potential to negatively impact staff wellbeing and quality of life. When experienced over time, they can have profound physical, emotional, spiritual and professional effects on the functioning of the team member experiencing them. Leaders of correctional systems that employ healthcare staff can prevent compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout by creating work environments that foster a culture of teamwork between correctional and healthcare disciplines and positive peer relationships. Interventions that cultivate a sense of self-awareness and teach skills in building resilience and positive coping mechanisms provide means for recognizing secondary traumatic stress, addressing compassion fatigue, and preventing burnout.Correctional Program Specialist, National Institute of Corrections, United States
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model is regarded as a fundamental approach to offender treatment in the corrections field, and assessment is a particularly important element to provide effective treatment in accordance with the RNR model. In Japan, assessment by the Case Formulation in Probation/Parole (CFP) tool was officially introduced in January 2021. The CFP is used to sort factors that lead to reoffending or delinquency and factors that promote rehabilitation into eight categories, and probation officers use the results of the assessment to draw charts or timelines to help elaborate the interactive relationships among these factors visually. The CFP helps probation officers identify supervisees’ personal and environmental characteristics that are criminogenic or promote desistance, and they assist probation officers in drafting individually tailored treatment plans. During implementation of supervision, probation officers continuously check the status of these factors and characteristics. Through these measures, probation officers and hogoshi (volunteer probation officers) can strengthen collaboration and develop a common understanding of what works to promote desistance. By helping probation officers identify positive or negative changes in supervisees’ lives and, if necessary, review and revise treatment plans, the CFP is improving probation practice in Japan.Deputy Director, General Affairs Divsion, Rehabilitation Bureau, Japan
Deputy Director, Supervision Division, Rehabilitation Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Executive Director, Office of Strategic Planning and Research, Massachusetts Department of Correction, United States
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Chief Operations Officer, Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO), Australia
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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In this workshop, Michele Deitch and Alycia Welch, authors of the soon-to-be released report “The Nightmare of Sleep in Prison: How changing sleep practices can promote a healthier, safer, and more humane correctional environment”, will identify ways that routine sleep practices in prison are dehumanizing, cause harm to people in custody, and contribute to safety issues and poor health outcomes. Drawing on examples of ways that some corrections agencies in the U.S. and in other countries have improved conditions and practices at their facilities, the presenters will recommend steps that corrections agencies and policy makers could take to promote healthy sleep for people in custody and, in so doing, better respect the humanity and dignity of people behind bars, achieve better health outcomes, and support a safer institutional environment.Director, Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, United States
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12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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This paper presents the findings from a study aimed at increasing our empirical understanding of the wellbeing challenges facing community corrections officers. To gain more detailed insight into this issue, 216 community corrections officers from four countries (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States) completed a survey which included the Perceived Occupational Adversity Scale (POAS), a Perceived Stress Scale, and items relating to perceptions of overall professional adversity as well as intentions to leave the profession. The POAS is a 36-item scale which provides a diagnostic indication of the specific six work-related challenges that are most negatively impacting community corrections officers (i.e. client management, risk/safety, perceptions of success, professional acknowledgement, working in a multi-system environment, and dual responsibility). Results indicate that there is a clear relationship across all four countries between POAS scores, perceived stress and the degree to which community corrections officers have considered leaving the profession. Further analysis indicates that although the work-related challenges represented in the POAS were acknowledged as negatively impacting the wellbeing of community corrections officers, the “profile” (i.e. the ranking of the six challenges) differs across countries. In addition to providing an empirical picture of the wellbeing journey for community corrections officers (i.e. POAS > Stress > Intention to Leave Profession), the results of this study also highlight the importance of ensuring that wellbeing intervention programs are informed through a diagnostic tool such as the POAS to ensure that the intervention is responsive to the perceived challenges of the target group.Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Professor, United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), Japan
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12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Director, Strategic Planning Division, Singapore Prison Service, Singapore
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12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The Hong Kong Correctional Services Department (HKCSD) is committed to providing professional and humane correctional services that prioritize offender rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Through purposeful activities, education, and training, HKCSD aims to promote a culture of respect, responsibility, and productivity that positively impacts the overall correctional environment. HKCSD has adopted a two-pronged approach to create more opportunities for upward mobility for rehabilitated persons, focusing on further studies and employment. This approach has contributed to a significant decrease in the recidivism rate in Hong Kong over the past two decades. HKCSD offers market-oriented vocational training programs that equip persons in custody with practical skills and knowledge to facilitate successful reintegration, with high passing rates and employment rates after release. Education programs also promote a sense of purpose and achievement, boosting self-esteem and contributing to a positive self-identity for persons in custody. While young persons in custody are required to take half-day education mandatorily, adult persons in custody are also encouraged to participate voluntarily in self-study or distance learning for tertiary education. To this, HKCSD had signed MOUs with universities in Hong Kong to provide supports in various aspect aiming to foster continual education in prison settings. Additionally, the department provides psychological services to assist young persons in custody to develop positive values and mindsets, strengthening psychological resilience and emotion regulation. Overall, HKCSD's commitment to purposeful activity, education, and training has led to a decline in recidivism rates and has contributed to a safer and more inclusive society.Acting Chief Officer, Hong Kong Correctional Services Department, China
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
In this presentation, research is combined with hands-on solutions for more humane neurodiversity-informed practices. The objective is to present current challenges concerning environmental factors and encountering neurodivergent offenders in prison and probation services as well as to introduce possible solutions for how to create neurodiversity-informed practices for more humane correctional environments.Doctoral Researcher, Clinical Psychologist Specializing in Neuropsychology, Autism Foundation Finland
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Lunch and Exhibition
12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Lunch and Exhibition
Plenary Session
1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Plenary Session
Many of today’s prisons are outdated – built for another purpose at another time. When building new prisons, the past is repeated. These old prisons, or new ones with this old design, often make applying the current European penology in practice challenging. With input from persons with lived experience, the panel-style interview will be an exciting and fascinating dive into the benefits of small-scale detention houses from a multitude of perspectives. This interview-style panel invites the audience to reflect on lived experiences, as the format amplifies the voice of formerly incarcerated persons. It is a voice often excluded from dialogue, yet vital to ensuring a humane approach.Plenary Session
2.15pm – 3pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Plenary Session
Head of Persons Deprived of Liberty Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland
Break and Exhibition
3pm – 3.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Break and Exhibition
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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A novel project to co-design policies and guidelines for testing and linkage to care for Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STBBIs), such as hepatitis C or HIV, in correctional settings was undertaken in British Columbia (BC), Canada. People who are incarcerated (PWAI) and staff in BC provincial correctional centres participated in the co-design process over a 24 month period. This presentation will outline the framework for co-design that was utilized, along with highlighting the recommendations made in the guidelines that were created.Senior Scientist, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canada
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Executive Director, Offender Development, Government of South Australia Department for Correctional Services, Australia
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Senior Expert & Vice President, Falcon Correctional & Community Services Inc., United States
Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Executive Director, Supervision Around the World (SAW) Project, United States
Major Sponsor Presentation
3.30pm – 4.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Major Sponsor Presentation
Business Development Consultant - Probation Systems, Unilink Software Ltd, United Kingdom
Workshop Session
4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Gender Specific Digital Rehabilitation develops a gender specific rehabilitation model for women offenders including substance abuse rehabilitation and reducing recidivism. Women and non-binary offenders have a heightened need for support since they aren’t recognized in corrections. Digital rehabilitation aims to enhance women’s possibilities to participate. The digital learning platform includes topics like security, self-esteem, social & life skills, boundaries, respect & social support. Digital Desistance strengthens offenders’ participation in a digitalized society and improves their digital skills. Digital rehabilitation platform is co-developed with the offenders and experts by experience. The project also develops the skills and attitudes of professionals and experts by experience working with offenders in digital desistance. The theoretical background is in Desistance & Good Lives Model (GLM). These projects of Silta Rehabilitation (NGO) are funded by the European Social Fund.Workshop Session
4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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This presentation explores the challenge of creating change in youth justice practice and administration. It specifically examines the Australian context, and the calls for change made by the 2018 Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Child Protection in the Northern Territory. The Royal Commission involved considerable research and consultation that provided a clear rationale and evidence base for change to a less institutional, and more humane and decentralised, model of youth justice. It was promised as a watershed moment both for the Northern Territory, but also other state jurisdictions across the country. However, rather than change, what was observed across Australian youth jurisdictions was a period of real and significant instability and unrest. This presentation documents this unrest and examines why, rather than being a catalyst for change, the Royal Commission led to a retreat and seeming regression in practice. To do this, it draws on research about youth justice staff, the psychology of young people within these facilities, and research that models how people and organisations respond to uncertainty. An argument is made for an alternative positive dismantling approach to creating change within youth justice systems that centres the key role of the relationships between young people and those that care for them.Workshop Session
4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Gender parity for uniformed peacekeepers is a main goal for the United Nations Department of Peace Operations. This presentation will demonstrate the innovative ways in which the United Nations have tackled gender-related barriers impeding women from participating fully, equally and meaningfully to peace operations’ corrections efforts. Téné Maimouna Zoungrana, a rapid intervention officer from Burkina Faso deployed to the United Nations peace operation in the Central African Republic will share her personal success story working in a peace operation context which was not initially designed to accommodate women. The presentation will expand on how humane corrections systems require diverse teams who reflect the population they serve and who bring diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets to the table to ensure operational effectiveness. The speakers from the United Nations Department of Peace Operations will demonstrate how the implementation of the Uniformed Gender Parity Strategy has lead to tangible results and what challenges still lie ahead of creating truly inclusive and enabling working environments for corrections officers in peacekeeping.Corrections Officer, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Central African Republic
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4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The physical environment is an active agent in the rehabilitation/habilitation. The environment can support the treatment alliance between the client and staff, not least by conveying a feeling of trust, security and self-determination. It is also reasonable to assume that the environment itself can reinforce or "redirect" and change the identity we carry. Incarceration comes with many losses. The question is whether the environment can compensate for the losses, in any case not amplify them. Despite the limited living conditions provided in institutional care, there are good opportunities through the design of the environment to create well-being.Workshop Session
4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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This presentation explores the effects of green space within and near to prisons on the wellbeing of those who live and work in these institutions. Building on extensive qualitative research in the UK and Scandinavia, and reporting recent groundbreaking quantitative analysis within England and Wales. For the first time, it robustly demonstrates that green space improves self-reported wellbeing, and reduces levels of self-harm and violence amongst incarcerated populations, and that it also reduces prison staff sickness absence. The presentation will cover both the theoretical connections between green space and wellbeing, the specific empirical findings of the research, and the policy implications for the design and alteration of prison environments.Professor in Carceral Geography, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Research Impact), University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Prison and probation services working with sentenced and convicted children have an essential role in safeguarding their human and fundamental rights, in accordance with The Beijing Rules and The Nelson Mandela Rules. Therefore, adequate and sustained capacity-building of correctional services to address children's rights should be the norm, as stressed in the European Rules for Juvenile Offenders Subject to Sanctions or Measures and the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child, among other legislations. However, there is a current lack of common standards across the EU on proper training for humane, child-friendly justice to address the diverse needs of disadvantaged children (i.e., with learning difficulties, different [minority] backgrounds, family problems, disabilities, and others). In this light, the ARISA Child EU-funded project intends to upscale the capacity of prison and probation services working with sentenced children, by better assessing the training needs of professionals throughout the EU, mapping and promoting the exchange of best practices and working models, as well as by creating a state-of-the-art training course aiming to promote rehabilitative juvenile justice. Findings from an inter-jurisdiction comparative analysis will be presented in this plenary, regarding both staff training needs and best practices, which highlights inherent diversities between the juvenile justice systems across EU Member States, and points to the need for common minimum training standards in what concerns a more child-centred approach to rehabilitative justice; with staff who are empowered with the knowledge of how to treat them with dignity and respect, while addressing their unique rehabilitative needs.Head of Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Community Portfolio, IPS_Innovative Prison Solutions, Portugal
Consultant & Researcher – Rehabilitation, Reintegration & Community, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal
Researcher and Consultant - International Judicial Cooperation and Human Rights, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal
Head of Directorate for International Judicial Cooperation and Human Rights, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal
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4.30pm – 5pm EDT, 24 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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In collaboration with the Ministry of Justice’s pilot project ‘RESTART Thames Valley', I investigate the resettlement journeys of 200 prison-leavers released from HM Prison Bullingdon over 18 months. I have conducted ethnographic data collection through a combination of participant observation, and unstructured, sequential interviews with prison leavers both pre- and post-release. This presentation maps the four most common, heterogeneous and dynamic patterns of desistence pathways observed in my sample.Plenary Session
9am – 9.15am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 15 mins
Plenary Session
Director-General, Houses of Justice, Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Vice-President, Council of Penological Cooperation (PC-CP), Council of Europe. Vice-President, Confederation of European Probation (CEP), Belgium
Plenary Session
9.15am – 9.50am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 35 mins
Plenary Session
Plenary Session
9.50am – 10.30am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 40 mins
Plenary Session
The detention house is a new model of punishment with focus on society-oriented rehabilitation, in a positive environment. The residents are offered more autonomy, responsibility and live together in living groups.Director, Detention Administration Department, Project Leader, Detention House, Belgium Prison Service - Justice Department
Break and Exhibition
10.30am – 11am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Break and Exhibition
Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
An insight into the probation and victim support by the Houses of Justice, the Belgian probation services.Director-General, Houses of Justice, Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Vice-President, Council of Penological Cooperation (PC-CP), Council of Europe. Vice-President, Confederation of European Probation (CEP), Belgium
Head of Department, Houses of Justice, Agency Justice and Enforcement, Flemish Authority, Belgium
Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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In this workshop we discuss how university students, prison officers and incarcerated learners can be equally seen as students in a semester-course on penology. This workshop shows how transformative learning can take place behind prison walls, and zooms in on the experiences of all participants.Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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General Coordinator, Vlaamse Boks Liga, Flemish Boxing League, Belgium
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11am – 11.30am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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11am – 11.30am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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A nuanced story about the successes and challenges we faced, and are still facing, concerning the organization of education and activities for detainees. In this lecture there will be also a strong focus on how the meaningful use of the time spent in detention can contribute to make detention more bearable and how it minimalizes the chances of recidivism.Management support, Prison management and detainee case manager, Prison of Wortel, Federal Justice Departement, Belgium
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11am – 11.30am EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Documentary series about detention as a lever for change.Spokeswoman Belgian Prison Service, Coordinator International Projects & Cellmade Prison Labour, Belgian Prison Service, Belgium
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Assistant professor, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Educational Sciences, Research group PArticipation And Learning in Detention (PALD), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The Enneagram has been used as a (scientifically validated) personality typology tool with prison staff to promote self-awareness, communication, emotional and reactive management, all with the aim of increasing compliance with ethical expectations and interpersonal skills. The same enneagram tool has been offered to groups of inmates in prisons with the collaboration of the American EPP program (enneagram prison project) to promote the same objectives of self-awareness and emotional health in addition to addressing the issue of trauma and addictions. This use of the same self-awareness tool with staff and inmates leads to many opportunities to foster a more peaceful climate of dynamic security within the prison.Prison Warden, Prison de Marche-en-Famenne, DGEPI, SPF Justice, Belgium
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Conseiller Director, Prison de Leuze-en-Hainaut, SPF Justice, DGEPI, Belgium
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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This presentation reviews the first ten years of public-private partnership for the management of new Belgian prisons, attempting to highlight the opportunities arising from these partnerships, but also the few difficulties encountered and which should serve as a basis for reflection in the future.Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The presentation focuses first on the as is-situation, which is no good news show but an honest representation of the reality in an old understaffed, overpopulated prison. To then zoom in on how we make the best of it, how we succeed in keeping the peace, both amongst inmates as amongst staff.Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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PhD Candidate, Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Participatory music programs in prison gained popularity in recent years due to their contribution to more humane correctional facilities. Previous research highlights the outcomes of these programs for incarcerated participants, like managing and expressing emotions, or self-development. However, a deeper understanding on how, why, for whom and under which circumstances these outcomes emerge remains under investigated. To respond to this research gap, this ongoing PhD research aims to develop a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms (e.g. providing a safe space, applying a Freirean approach) and contextual factors (e.g. the prison context, the background of the music facilitator) behind participatory music programs in prison, that trigger (un)intended outcomes. Based on preliminary findings from a realist synthesis, theory-gleaning interviews with international key stakeholders such as academics and music program developers, and participant observations of participatory music programs in prison, initial program theories are developed. An example of such an initial program theory about participatory music programs in prison is: It is expected that, if a shared goal [mechanism] is established during the participatory music program in prison, the self-confidence of incarcerated participants increases [outcome 1]. Participants experience a sense of accomplishment [outcome 2], which facilitates their self-development [outcome 3]. This research is of added value for practice and academia since it provides deeper and richer information on how to deal with the challenges related to organizing participatory music programs in a prison setting.Assistant professor, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Educational Sciences, Research group PArticipation And Learning in Detention (PALD), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Brussels Research Centre on Innovation in Learning & Diversity (BILD), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
The working of three main services involved in addressing the phenomenon of radicalization, extremism and terrorism in Belgian Prison Service will be presented. In accordance to the Federal Strategy on this phenomenon, we work according to a multi-agency approach with both focus on security as well as socio-prevention and reintegration. The common finality as well as the specificity of the different services will be illustrated. We will also present a fictional case, following the moment of incarceration until release.Central Psychosocial Service Extremism, Belgian Prison Service, Belgium
Policy coordinator assistance and services, Vlaams Agentschap Justitie en Handhaving, Belgium
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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What education is offered in prisons. Offering literacy classes, English as a second language, parenting classes, wellness education, adult continuing education, library services, and instruction in leisure-time activities. Lack of access to education maintains inequality and seriously curtails a prisoner’s life chances, whereas improving reading skills can, of itself, improve employability and give access to other educational opportunities that will also improve the prisoner’s prospects after prison. Being able to read is also valuable for its own sake. Every prison leader should want prisoners to leave having improved their reading skills significantly. The prison system should be focused on quality teaching that gives prisoners a secure reading ability that they can apply both inside and outside of prison. The prison system must have the full support of civil society organizations and volunteer activists. Increasing access to and use of technology to ensure that education and programming prepares prisoners for employment and success in a technologically based society.Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Prison labor - corporate support - risk assessment.Deputy Assessor, Sentence Execution Court, Belgium Prison Services, Belgium
Lunch and Exhibition
12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Lunch and Exhibition
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
The good lives model is the additional model to the Risk-Need-Responsivity model. It motivates residents to change their way of life and strive for desistance, by aiming for more well-being.Professor, Department of Special Education, University Ghent, Belgium
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1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Forensic psychiatrist, OPZC Rekem, Forensic Psychiatric Centre Antwerp, KU Leuven, Belgium
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1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Assistant professor, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Educational Sciences, Research group PArticipation And Learning in Detention (PALD), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Director, Community Based Health in Justice, Global Hub for Community Based Health in Detention, Irish Red Cross, Irish Prison Service, Ireland
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2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Researcher, PhD candidate, The Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (NIFP), Netherlands
Psychologist, Senior researcher, The Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (NIFP), Netherlands
Workshop Session
2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
Policy advisor on procurement, Dutch Custodial Institution Agency, Netherlands
Workshop Session
2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Peer-led interventions can play a critical role in supporting clients to navigate the criminal legal system, including the process of vacating warrants. Individuals who face having a warrant are at a higher risk of overdosing and increasing the barriers to access community services. The positive reception of this peer-led warrant program has led to increasing demands to provide this warrant program to the surrounding communities.Workshop Session
2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Leiden University, Netherlands
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2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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An international collaboration (Erasmus+ project) where we try to make the digital world accessible in a secure manner by using a secure online learning platform.Workshop Session
2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Psychologist, Senior researcher, The Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (NIFP), Netherlands
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2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Senior Scientist, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canada
Break and Exhibition
3pm – 3.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Break and Exhibition
Plenary Session
3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Plenary Session
Plenary Session
4.15pm – 5pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Plenary Session
A presentation of the masterplan which lead to the conception of a new prison in Haren and an overview of the concepts, start up, difficulties and workings of the new prison in Haren (Belgium), a state of the art prison village focused on humane detention.Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony
6.30pm – 7.30pm EDT, 25 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony
Plenary Session
9am – 9.45am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Plenary Session
Correctional Officer, Bredtveit High Security Prison for Women, Oslo, Norway
Plenary Session
9.45am – 10.30am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
Plenary Session
Focussed initially on five European countries which have introduced, expanded or greatly strengthened community-based services since the millennium, research respondents have included service leaders, judicial and community stakeholders, politicians, donor and supra-national organisations, and consultants involved in policy exchange/capacity building. Initial enquiry was supplemented by extensive literature review and insights from the presenters’ broad experience of capacity building in other European jurisdictions and globally.Break and Exhibition
10.30am – 11am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Break and Exhibition
Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
This presentation will provide an overview of Singapore Prison Service (SPS)’s journey in the integration of Restorative Practices (RP) in offender rehabilitation and reintegration. The goals of RP are to build and strengthen relationships, heal fractured relationships, prevent, and repair harm.Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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This presentation will review a large multi-site implementation of correctional worker peer support teams with goals of improving staff wellness, creating a culture of mental health awareness and help seeking, and improving staff retention. We will discuss policy and training considerations, as well as the rationale for investing in peer support teams as a foundation to ensuring humane correctional systems. We will review early outcomes associated with this work and provide examples of how the peer support teams have assisted their colleagues in times of crisis, as well as their efforts to reduce the likelihood that a situation will progress to a crisis stage.Director, Behavioral Health Services, Management & Training Corporation (MTC), United States
Educational Psychologist, Consultant, Management & Training Corporation, United States
Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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PhD Candidate, Irish Prison Service & University College Dublin, Ireland
Workshop Session
11am – 11.30am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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11am – 11.30am EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Participants in this session will be provided general overview and conceptual understanding of the Restorative Action Planning process and how best to incorporate the tenets into ongoing or proposed programming efforts within their agencies. The session will provide interactive examples as well as open forum discussion of the potential affects of implementing a program that focuses on offender actions and their impact on on those they have victimized. Session participants will be able to view examples of how pro-social scripts and positive actions from offenders with their victim(s) more effectively restore the damaged ties to their victim(s) and the affected communities. The product of such interactions potentially decreasing recidivism, improving victim safety and participation in justice, and positive increasing overall community efficacy on offender reintegration.Senior Corrections Advisor, US Department of State - INL KM/TAD, United States
Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
The strategy attempts to address gender in DRC prisons system in its fourteen-point priority areas. Chiefly among them, establishment of gender at central level, capacity building on gender mainstreaming, integration of gender in prison’s regulatory documents, gradual increment in the establishment of female personnel, lobbying for the integration of gender in the parent ministry, diversification and intensification of prisoner’s programmes, advocacy for the construction of women prisons and staff quarters and enhancing collaboration with development partners. Corrections Unit efforts will be directed towards realization of the strategies. Specifically, Correction Unit will make available resources in its programmatic funds, provide technical and logistical support, capacity building and high-level advocacy. Further, Correction Unit will develop a robust resource mobilization mechanism to bridge the funding gap since the envisaged programmes require huge capital outlay.Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
In this presentation, I will be sharing the stories of six ex correction officers I interviewed about their experiences of working within a prison system. The aim is to draw attention to the psychological complexity of correction officer work and the significant impact on many officers of the continual exposure to traumatic incidents that occur within in the prison. The interviews reflect the depth of wisdom and knowledge officers have about the system yet also the immense challenges they face in maintaining their mental health well being often in the face of a harsh prison culture. In Australia, correction officers are not in a position to talk publicly about their work which has, inadvertently meant their 'voice' in the many discussion around Justice Reform, prisoner rehabilitation and so on is simply invisible. These interviews in a small way will make the correction officer 'voice' that little more visible!Workshop Session
11.30am – 12pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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11.30am – 12pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Indiana University, United States
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12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Assistant Director Detainee Services, ACT Corrective Services, Australia
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12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Workshop Session
For decades, violence and unsafe conditions have plagued the New York City jails on Rikers Island, resulting in tens of thousands of serious injuries to people in custody. Despite the importance that injury data holds, the Department of Correction has long been troubled by poor accountability and indifference, which in turn has led to a significant underreporting of violence and serious injuries.Director, Violence Prevention, New York City Board of Correction, United States
Workshop Session
12pm – 12.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Lunch and Exhibition
12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Lunch and Exhibition
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Prison visitation is an important aspect of humane correctional practice as it is one of the few opportunities presented to incarcerated individuals to facilitate meaningful social interaction and stay connected to the community while incarcerated. Moreover, prison systems worldwide have been encouraged to implement visits based on the belief that visits will help reduce reoffending. In this large-scale study using data from over 4,000 incarcerated individuals in Dutch prisons we explore who gets visited and which factors relate to why some individuals are (not) visited, as well as the consequences of these visits on behavior in prison and after release.Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Project Manager, International Relations and Legal Cooperations Department, Ministry of Justice, Georgia
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1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 45 mins
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Senior Specialist, Project Manager, Prison and Probation Service of Finland, Finland
Workshop Session
1.30pm – 2.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 1 hour
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This Q&A panel is sponsored by the ICPA Network on External Prison Oversight and Human Rights and will be facilitated by Dr. Ivan Zinger (Correctional Investigator of Canada). Three panelists (Secretary General of the Association for the Prevention of Torture, Chief Inspector of Prisons for Ireland, and former Correctional Investigator of Canada) will discuss how oversight agencies can influence correctional practice and policies to better comply with domestic and international human rights obligations.Correctional Investigator, Office of the Correctional Investigator, Canada
Secretary General, Association for the Prevention of Torture, Switzerland
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2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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The use of technological advancements for prisoners in penal institutions, as well as the development of new applications for this purpose, is a result and necessity of prisoners' freedom of communication, which is one of the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by either most constitutions or Turkish Constitution. As a result, in keeping with digital technological advancements, we will introduce the E-Görüş (E-Sight/ E-View) application, which has begun to be implemented in Turkey in order to realize prisoners' freedom of communication in accordance with human rights.Workshop Session
2pm – 2.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Head Training and Research, Institute of Correctional Administration, India
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2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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This will be an interactive panel with representatives of various prison oversight models in the United States. The panelists will explain their particular model and allow for comparison to the other models represented by the panel. There will be a focus on how their model helps advance human rights, as well as the benefits and hinderances their model may represent.Workshop Session
2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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In this presentation we will present the ongoing transformation of the Latvian Correctional Service. A special focus will be devoted to the cooperation between the Latvian Prison Administration and the University College of Norwegian Correctional Service and Romerike prison.Workshop Session
2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Director int., Sous-ministériat des Services correctionnels, Canada
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2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Senior Superintendent, Hong Kong Correctional Services Department, China
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2.30pm – 3pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Norway is by many viewed as being in the forefront of correctional services development. The Scandinavian model has gained increased attention in the last decade. Annually we receive many visitors, including colleagues from correctional services around the world, researchers, policy-makers and students. While we firmly stand by our Scandinavian model, we now have to acknowledge that all is not well in “little Scandinavia”. During the last five years the correctional services have encountered increased scrutiny and criticism both from international and national human rights monitoring bodies as well as a number of cases litigated before the domestic courts. All of these have one thing in common, namely pointing in the direction of the fact that our policies, practices and regulatory frameworks are not in line with international human rights standards in several areas. Unlike many other countries, our shortcomings are not related to prison overcrowding or poor prison conditions, but rather to issues such as routine and indiscriminate application of control measures and use of solitary confinement and isolation. We are today in a situation with several lawsuits and demands for compensation from a high number of current and former inmates.Deputy General Director, Directorate of Norwegian Correctional Service, Norway
Senior Adviser - Human rights, Directorate of Norwegian Correctional Service, Norway
Break and Exhibition
3pm – 3.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
Break and Exhibition
Plenary Session
3.30pm – 4pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Plenary Session
4pm – 4.30pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins
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Plenary Session
4.30pm – 4.45pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 15 mins
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Plenary Session
4.45pm – 4.55pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 10 mins
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Plenary Session
4.55pm – 5pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 5 mins
Plenary Session
Prison/Facility Visits
7am – 2pm EDT, 27 October 2023 ‐ 7 hours
Prison/Facility Visits
Prison/Facility Visits
7.30am – 1.30pm EDT, 27 October 2023 ‐ 6 hours
Prison/Facility Visits
Prison/Facility Visits
7.30am – 1.30pm EDT, 27 October 2023 ‐ 6 hours
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Prison/Facility Visits
7.45am – 1.15pm EDT, 27 October 2023 ‐ 5 hours 30 mins
Prison/Facility Visits
Prison/Facility Visits
8am – 1pm EDT, 27 October 2023 ‐ 5 hours
Prison/Facility Visits
Located in the Brussels region, the prison of Haren opened in the fall of 2022. With a capacity of 1190 places, it is the largest prison in Belgium. It is both a remand prison and a prison for convicts and accommodates men and women. There is also mother and baby unit on site as well as a psychiatric section, a medical centre and a secured clinical observation centre.
Consisting of 19 buildings, each with its own function and with mutual interaction, it is more a prison village than a regular prison. There are buildings housing inmates and buildings with communal facilities. Allowing inmates to walk around autonomously on site, in a secure manner, contributes to their independence.
The residential buildings are divided into separate living units where inmates live together in small groups. They are also arranged in such a way as to encourage inmates to do chores similar to those in normal life. The different units allow for a tailored approach and regime, ranging from (more) open to high-security zones. Central buildings with communal facilities are the so-called ‘town hall’ where inmates can go for all kinds of services and activities as well as the entrance building. There are also buildings with workhouses, logistics services, staff canteen, offices for staff, etc.
The new prisons of Haren and Dendermonde are the first Belgian prisons where custodial tasks are carried out by detention counsellors and security officers, new specialised staff roles replacing the sole role of prison officer.
Prison/Facility Visits
8.15am – 1pm EDT, 27 October 2023 ‐ 4 hours 45 mins
Prison/Facility Visits
Prison/Facility Visits
8.30am – 12.30pm EDT, 27 October 2023 ‐ 4 hours
Prison/Facility Visits
Executive Director, ICPA, Australia
Natalie is a highly skilled and experienced leader, with over a decade of experience delivering complex and strategic projects for government with a focus on the human services sector. She has a strong track record of success in managing teams, driving change, and implementing significant reform projects.
Prior to taking on the role of Executive Director, ICPA, Natalie ran the South Australian Department for Correctional Services’ Strategic Policy, Projects, and Partnerships Unit. She has also been responsible for successfully delivering significant operational reforms within South Australia’s prison system. Natalie has formal qualifications in project management and is an expert in program and project management methodologies.
Welcome and Introduction Monday @ 8:55 AM
Closing Remarks Thursday @ 4:55 PM
President, ICPA, Australia
Peter has been the Commissioner, Corrective Services New South Wales, Australia since September 2012 and retired in August 2021. Prior to this appointment Peter was the Chief Executive of the Department for Correctional Services in South Australia from July 2003 and worked with the Department of Corrective Services in Queensland, Australia for almost 15 years, his last position was Deputy Director-General. Peter started his corrections career in Germany in 1980.
New South Wales is one of eight States and Territories in Australia and Corrective Services New South Wales has responsibility for prisons and community corrections. It is the largest Australian corrections jurisdiction.
Peter has a strong background in corrections operation, in particular offender management and intervention. He has extensive experience in prison management and policy formulation. Peter also presided over significant prison infrastructure design, construction and commissioning and has particular expertise in the development of service standards for the delivery of correctional services by the private sector and contract management.
Peter holds a Masters of Public Administration and Bachelor of Social Work degree.
Opening Speech Monday @ 9:05 AM
Closing Speech Thursday @ 4:45 PM
Minister of Justice, Belgium
No bio provided
Host Country Speech Monday @ 9:15 AM
Mayor of Antwerp, Belgium
No bio provided
Host City Welcome Monday @ 9:25 AM
Executive Director, Penal Reform International (PRI), United Kingdom
Humanity and Dignity in Corrections (PID219) Monday @ 9:30 AM
Assistant Director, Prison and Probation Service of Finland, Finland
Tuija Muurinen works as a Assistant Director in Vanaja prison in Hämeenlinna. Vanaja prison is open prison for women. She has degree in Bachelor of Social Services from Laurea Univercity of applied sciences. The Bachelor of social Service is based on the competences needed to work in social services, supporting children and families, marginalisation, social rehabilitation and reinforcing inclusion. She is qualified clinician and trainer of Let’s talk about children-discussion and Network meetings and Qualifield clinician of Family Talk Intervention. She is currently studying for an upper university of applied sciences degree in management and social work development. She has worked in Prison and Probation Service of Finland for 18 years. In recent years she has been involved in developing trauma informed work with women.Prison Family Unit - A Therapeutical Environment for Babies and Parents (PID034) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Senior Specialist, Core Operations, Prison and Probation Service of Finland, Finland
Marjo Reinikainen works as a Senior Specialist in the Core Operations Unit in Prison and Probation Service of Finland. She has degrees in Social Work from University of Tampere, FI and Applied Criminology, Penology and Management from University of Cambridge, UK. She has worked in Prison and Probation Service of Finland for over 20 years. Her professional experience includes for example probation work, assessment work and management work. In recent years she has been involved in developing new units for young prisoners and female prisoners in Finland. Currently she specializes in matters regarding work with female prisoners, interactive case work in prisons, enforcement of electronic monitoring sentences and supporting commissioning of new IT system of Prison and Probation Service.Prison Family Unit - A Therapeutical Environment for Babies and Parents (PID034) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Claudia Pecorella is a professor of Criminal law at the Italian University of Milano-Bicocca. Since many years she has been working on gender violence issues, both in the academic context and as part of training courses for lawyers and professionals. In this field, she realized an investigation on intimate partner violence, analyzing the cases prosecuted by the Criminal Court of Milan in a certain period.Women in Prison and Previous Victimization: The Need for a Partnership with Women's Shelters (PID165) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Assistant Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Massimiliano Dova is an Assistant Professor of Criminal law at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been visiting researcher at Max Planck Institute of international and comparative criminal law of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main. He has been member of national and international research projects on criminal sanctions and rehabilitation. His principal research interests are in some of the most relevant aspects of criminal law theory, such as mens rea (and in particular indirect intent), self-defense, the role of emotions in criminal law and the criminal sanctions system. In 2017, he published a book on alternative to detention.Women in Prison and Previous Victimization: The Need for a Partnership with Women's Shelters (PID165) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Member, Board of Presidents, CADMI, Italy
Graduated in Classical Literature at the University of Bologna (Italy), she holds a Master of Arts from Columbia University (Department of Italian) and a Master's in Systemic Counseling from the Panta Rei Center in Milan. She has been working as a volunteer reception operator at the oldest women's shelter in Milan (CADMI) for ten years and is a member of the Board of Directors.Women in Prison and Previous Victimization: The Need for a Partnership with Women's Shelters (PID165) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Pharmacist, Ph.D. Student, EUCLID University, United States
Healthcare Performance Assessment of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service - A Pilot Project (PID068) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Researcher, Progettomondo MLAL, United Kingdom
With Good Reason: A Study of the Alignment of Prison Conditions in Bolivia and Honduras with the Nelson Mandela Rules (PID151) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Chair, ICPA Research and Development Network, Canada
Frank Porporino has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has sustained a close to 50-year career in corrections as a front-line practitioner, senior manager, researcher, educator, trainer, and consultant. Frank has promoted evidence-informed practice throughout his career and his contributions have been recognized with awards from a number of associations including the ACA, ICCA, Volunteers of America and the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA). Early in his career, Frank founded the Research Branch of Corrections Canada, an internationally recognized leader in applied research in corrections that has recently celebrated its 35th Anniversary. Frank was also a founding member of the HMMPS Correctional Services Accreditation Panel, a best practice review committee that was subsequently emulated by many jurisdictions. He has remained active internationally providing training and technical assistance in effective practice in over 25 countries, most recently in Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Japan, Namibia, Ireland, Singapore and Barbados. Currently Frank is serving as Editor of the ICPA practitioner-oriented journal, Advancing Corrections, Chair of the ICPA R&D Network, member of the ICPA Practice Transfer Taskforce and Board Member and Secretary for the ICPA-North America Chapter. He has been a member of many ACA Committees, was a past member of the ICPA Board of Directors and is also Past-President of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (IACFP).Practice Transfer Taskforce and Case Study: Can the Global Game Help Solve the Global Problem of Recidivism? (PID223) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Practice Transfer Taskforce, ICPA, United States
Bob Goble began professional practice as a facility planner with the city of Dallas, Texas in 1971. Most of his experience has been in the planning of facilities for adult and juvenile corrections, detention, law enforcement, and courthouses. Some notable projects included: consulting planning in Singapore for the new Changi Prison, Boys Home, Selarang Park Complex, Woodbridge Mental Health Center, and Subordinate Courts Expansion plan; growth expansion plans for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) World Headquarters in Manila; and corrections project plans review for the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB). He has also prepared operational systems evaluations, master plans and provided technical assistance and training for local, state and federal government agencies throughout the USA and several other countries. He has served as an expert witness in USA Federal and state courts and authored 12 published articles and manuals on facilities and systems planning. Prior to helping establish CGL Mr. Goble was Assistant Director of the planning division of an international engineering firm. At the University of Illinois graduate school, he was a Research Assistant and Writer for the “Quarterly Digest of Urban and Regional Research” and a graduate Teaching Assistant in urban and regional planning. His memberships have included: Chairman Board of Directors South Carolina Children’s Bureau; American Institute of Certified Planners; American Correctional Association; Chair ACA International Committee; American Jail Association; and the International Corrections and Prisons Association. He is a past member of the ICPA Board of Directors, served as Treasurer, Program Committee member, is a member of the Practice Transfer Task Force and the Board of the ICPA-North America Chapter.Practice Transfer Taskforce and Case Study: Can the Global Game Help Solve the Global Problem of Recidivism? (PID223) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Head of Prison Industries, Catering and Physical Education, HM Prison Service, United Kingdom
Practice Transfer Taskforce and Case Study: Can the Global Game Help Solve the Global Problem of Recidivism? (PID223) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Founder and Chair, Twinning Project, United Kingdom
Practice Transfer Taskforce and Case Study: Can the Global Game Help Solve the Global Problem of Recidivism? (PID223) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Chief Executive, Twinning Project, United Kingdom
Practice Transfer Taskforce and Case Study: Can the Global Game Help Solve the Global Problem of Recidivism? (PID223) Monday @ 11:00 AM
Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Forensic Psychology, University of Chichester, The Open University, England, United Kingdom
Identification and Support for Children with a Family Member in Prison - What Works and What Are the Challenges? (PID009) Monday @ 11:30 AM
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Newcastle, Australia
The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach (PID139) Monday @ 11:30 AM
A Modified Delphi Exercise to Develop Best Practice Principles for Programs and Services for People Exiting Custody (PID169) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Pro Vice Chancellor, Research Lead Custodial Health, The University of Newcastle, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, Australia
Professor Elizabeth Sullivan is an executive leader, public health physician & medical epidemiologist with academic & professional qualifications in public health. She is an inspirational & collaborative leader with demonstrated strategic & operational capability as an executive within the university & as a senior leader in the health sector. Professor Sullivan is an international expert in observational epidemiology, metadata development and leads high performing multi-disciplinary teams that embrace cultural & gender diversity, ensuring excellence in education, engagement & delivery of impactful research.The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach (PID139) Monday @ 11:30 AM
A Modified Delphi Exercise to Develop Best Practice Principles for Programs and Services for People Exiting Custody (PID169) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Senior Lecturer, Researcher, The University of Newcastle, Australia
The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach (PID139) Monday @ 11:30 AM
A Modified Delphi Exercise to Develop Best Practice Principles for Programs and Services for People Exiting Custody (PID169) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana
Dr (Supt.) Lawrence Kofi Acheampong is the Medical Director of the Ghana Prisons Service and the Medical Superintendent of the Prisons Hospital, Nsawam. He is the Lead Clinician in the restructuring agenda of the Ghana Prisons Health Directorate. He is a member of the research Committee of ICPA and a member of the American College of Correctional Physicians. He has published papers in peer reviewed journals on correctional health.Ghana Prisons Surgical Project - A Tool For Creating Humane Corrections - Medium Security Prisons, Nsawam As A Case Study (PID213) Monday @ 11:30 AM
Director General, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana
Ghana Prisons Surgical Project - A Tool For Creating Humane Corrections - Medium Security Prisons, Nsawam As A Case Study (PID213) Monday @ 11:30 AM
Director of Prisons, Health, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana
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Ghana Prisons Surgical Project - A Tool For Creating Humane Corrections - Medium Security Prisons, Nsawam As A Case Study (PID213) Monday @ 11:30 AM
Contract Director, HMP FOSSE WAY, Serco Ltd, United Kingdom
‘Not Just Another New Prison Building’: A New Prison Delivering a Psychologically Informed Operating Model (PID058) Monday @ 11:30 AM
CEO, Co-Founder, Core Systems, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Patricia O’Hagan is the CEO of Core Systems, a software company that is a world leader in prisoner self-service technology with over 250,000 users, in Correctional agencies across three continents. Core Systems technology solutions provide people in the justice system with meaningful opportunities that can change behaviours and empower people to transforminto contributing members of society. The company is deeply passionate about driving this positive change and its mission is to transform lives together.
Patricia brings over 20 years of Prison technology experience and success to the company. She has worked with a wide range of Prison and Correctional Services Agencies around the world. Patricia is an international speaker on Corrections Technology and has been invited to present at industry forums including the ACA Congress of Corrections (American Correctional Association) the Inter Prison Service Security Group (Her Majesty’s Prison Service, UK) and APPA (American Probation and Parole Association).
Patricia has authored numerous publications in the Corrections, Technology and Biometric fields. Patricia served on the Skills for Security Consultation Group for Biometrics and Human Identity contributing to the development of national occupational standards for the industry. Patricia is currently an active member of the APPA technology committee.
From 2011 – 2017 Patricia served on the Economic Advisory Group (EAG), providing independent advice to the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland and she is currently a member of Matrix, the industry panel informing government, industry and academia on the commercial exploitation of R&D and science and technology. Patricia was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2013 Royal New Year Honours list for services to the Northern Ireland Economy. In 2022 Patricia was awarded the Outstanding Woman in Tech by Women in Tech Northern Ireland.
Preserving Identity: The Role of Technology in Upholding Religious and Cultural Freedoms for Indigenous Peoples in Prison (PID002) Monday @ 11:45 AM
Professor, International Health Policy and Practice, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Marie Claire Van Hout, PhD, LLM, MPH is Professor of International Public Health Policy and Practice at Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. She is dual qualified in Public Health and in Human Rights Law. She works mainly in Africa and the Middle East, and regularly consults for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNAIDS and the Council of Europe Pompidou Group as evaluation and substantive expert on their HIV, drug treatment and prison health programmes.Best Interests of the Child: A Global Assessment of Conditions of Detention and Age Restrictions (PID100) Monday @ 12:00 PM
Researcher, Institute of Addiction Research, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Simon Fleißner, MA Social Work, is a research assistant at the Institute for Addiction Research Frankfurt and PhD student at the University of Bremen. He is working on the implementation of Take-Home Naloxone in Germany. He is also researching prison conditions from a human rights and global perspective.Best Interests of the Child: A Global Assessment of Conditions of Detention and Age Restrictions (PID100) Monday @ 12:00 PM
Researcher, Institute of Addiction Research, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Ulla-Britt Klankwarth is an MA student in “Criminology and Violence Research” at the University of Regensburg, Germany. She holds a BA in Social Work and is a research assistant at the Institute for Addiction Research at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main. Her main research interests include women in prison and alternatives to imprisonment.Best Interests of the Child: A Global Assessment of Conditions of Detention and Age Restrictions (PID100) Monday @ 12:00 PM
Chief Operating Officer, Alvis Inc., United States
Alvis Family & Children's Program, a Community Re-entry Program that Serves Justice Involved Mothers and their Children (PID091) Monday @ 12:00 PM
Chief Executive Officer, Health through Walls, United States
Advancing Humane Treatment: Determining Baseline Prevalence of TB and Associated Conditions in Mozambiques Prisons (PID180) Monday @ 12:00 PM
Computer-Aided Detection (CAD): Using Artificial Intelligence to Provide Humane Treatment in Haitian Prisons (PID199) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
National Director, Health Care Service, Mozambique Prison Service, Mozambique
Cremilde Alice da Silva Moambe Anli is a general practitioner, and National Director of the Health Care Service at the National Penitentiary Service of Mozambique. She graduated in medicine from the Eduardo Mondlane University, in Mozambique, in 2000 and holds a master’s degree in health systems from the Sérgio Arouca National School of Public Health – Fiocruz, Brazil. She is responsible for designing policies and strategies for the sector. Manages medical-stomatology and hygienic-epidemiological assistance to all Penitentiary Facilities in the country contributing to keep both inmates and officers in good health; Establishes the necessary coordination and cooperation throughout the national territory with the National Health Service to ensure medical attention to penitentiary facilities; Creates plans and monitor their implementation and the health conditions of the prison population; She is the coordinator/responsible for the implementation of the Key Population projects at SERNAP, such as: 100% Vida by Pathfinder, VIVA+ by FDC (Foundation for Community Development – 2021 to the present), in Mozambican penitentiaries, with the support of cooperation partners from the health area.Advancing Humane Treatment: Determining Baseline Prevalence of TB and Associated Conditions in Mozambiques Prisons (PID180) Monday @ 12:00 PM
Educational Psychologist, Consultant, Management & Training Corporation, United States
Improving Prison Environments to Maximize Inmate Outcomes (PID069) Monday @ 12:00 PM
You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup: Implementing Peer Support Teams to Improve Corrections Worker Health (PID092) Thursday @ 11:00 AM
Director of Corrections Programs, Management and Training Corporation, United States
Dr. Lindsey Mueller is the Director of Corrections Programs at Management & Training Corporation (MTC). She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in Spring 2022. Her areas of specialization include the systematic use of reinforcers and sanctions in correctional settings, fidelity monitoring to enhance rehabilitative services, enhancing reentry efforts to increase the likelihood of success with individuals, and the evaluation of effective strategies to change behavior. She has helped design and implement an MTC corrections-wide behavior management initiative, a fidelity monitoring initiative, and oversees gender-responsive, trauma-responsive care in correctional institutions.Improving Prison Environments to Maximize Inmate Outcomes (PID069) Monday @ 12:00 PM
Deputy Head, Criminal Law Division, Council of Europe, France
The Council of Europe: How to Make the Imprisonment Effective and Humane at the Same Time? (PID062) Monday @ 1:30 PM
Lawyer, European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe, France
Krešimir Kamber obtained a Master of Laws diploma from the Rijeka University Faculty of Law (Croatia) where he also finished further studies in criminal sciences and criminal law. He obtained his PhD from the Ghent University Faculty of Law and Criminology (Belgium) after completing research in the field of human rights law and procedural criminal justice. He works as a lawyer in the Directorate of Jurisconsult of the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights. He is the coordinator for the criminal justice-related issues within the Court. He also holds the position of a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ghent University Faculty of Law and Criminology. Previously he worked in private practice and for the public prosecution service of Croatia. He has widely published and regularly gives lectures on various issues of human rights law and criminal justice. He also participates in various initiatives of the governmental and non-governmental sectors on the issues related to human rights and criminal justice.The Council of Europe: How to Make the Imprisonment Effective and Humane at the Same Time? (PID062) Monday @ 1:30 PM
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), Council of Europe, France
The Council of Europe: How to Make the Imprisonment Effective and Humane at the Same Time? (PID062) Monday @ 1:30 PM
Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and Independent Consultant, Solitary Confinement, United Kingdom
Sharon Shalev, LLM, PhD is Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford and an Independent Consultant at SolitaryConfinemnt.Org. Dr Shalev has been studying the use of solitary confinement and other restrictivepractices for over 30 years and is internationally recognised as an expert in the area.Iso: Perspectives on Solitary Confinement Practices in the Netherlands (PID209) Monday @ 2:15 PM
Deputy Director, Division of Prisons and Foreigner Detention, Ministry of Justice and Safety, Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, Netherlands
Dr. Toon Molleman is the deputy director of prisons and immigration detention at the Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency (DJI). He previously worked as a prison director of the penitentiary institution of Arnhem and Leeuwarden. Dr. Molleman received his PhD in 2014 at Utrecht University (Methodology & statistics) by creating a benchmark for prisons. During his PhD research, Dr. Molleman worked at the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) of the Ministry of Justice and Safety.Iso: Perspectives on Solitary Confinement Practices in the Netherlands (PID209) Monday @ 2:15 PM
Founder, Executive Vice President, CGL Companies, United States
East-West and In Between (PID184) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Director Emeritus, Parkin Architects, Canada
East-West and In Between (PID184) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Senior Project Architect, Parkin Architects, Canada
Roberta Somlo is a Senior Project Architect with over 25 years of experience in planning, design and management of medium to large scale institutional, healthcare and commercial projects. As a Senior Project Manager, she has led multi-disciplinary consultant teams on highly complex institutional projects. Her expertise includes programming, scheduling, and the production of reports and studies. She is also a specialist in security and justice facility projects. Some of her most recent correctional projects include: GTA Male Youth Detention Centres, Toronto, functional Programming and Master Planning for three new youth secure detention facilities; Newfoundland and Labrador New Adult Correctional Facility, St. John’s NL, programming, master planning and site analysis for a new 387-bed correctional facility; GTA Female Detention Centre, Toronto ON, programming, master planning and schematic design for a new 600 bed detention facility and modular-build housing in various locations in Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Studies, and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Waterloo. Ms. Somlo is a licensed architect with the Ontario Association of Architects and the American Institution of Architects. She is a founding member of the Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice and regularly presents at various conferences.East-West and In Between (PID184) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Thematic Leader, Access to Justice, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden
Josh is Head of Access to Justice at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) in Lund, Sweden. He previously served as Director of the Institute’s regional offices in Nairobi and Jakarta, managing programmes focussed on practical implementation of international human rights standards for justice sector actors, and correctional services in particular. Prior to RWI, he worked for organisations including the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, and Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights.Bringing Human Rights to Correctional Policy and Practice in Kenya (PID006) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Kenya
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Bringing Human Rights to Correctional Policy and Practice in Kenya (PID006) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Superintendent of Prisons, Kenya Prisons Service, Kenya
Enthusiastic leader with a solid record of designing, implementing and monitoring strategies, policies and performance matrix, that impacted service delivery and public sector reforms. Accomplished as a trusted advisor to senior public service leaders, national institutions, development partners and technical working groups on research and monitoring, knowledge management, planning and budgeting.Pretrial Detention Needs Rethink (PID103) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Visiting Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Currently, Howard runs his own consulting practice and partners with government and non-government clients, providing policy and operational guidance in the social and justice sectors. Howard has successfully adapted the United Nations Nelson Mandela Rules Compliance Checklist for Canadian implementation for use as a transitional housing option for hard-to-house clients leaving incarceration. Additionally, he was chosen as one of five corrections experts to assist a Middle Eastern country working on modernizing correctional operations, moving from punishment to rehabilitation. In this role, Howard generated foundational comparator country reports and helped create a roadmap for change. He recently conducted a comprehensive analysis of the use of force in a Canadian provincial correctional service, resulting in new training requirements, policy reform, improved workplace safety, and enhanced oversight and accountability. Previous work has included a policy, operational, and oversight review of use of force in a Canadian jurisdiction, an exploration of the percussors to institutional violence, a deep examination of the problematic use of segregation, and the development of comprehensive operational, policy and legislative reform in a Canadian province.Segregation Reform: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? (PID131) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Achieving Meaningful Human Rights Reforms in Corrections through External Prison Oversight (PID089) Thursday @ 1:30 PM
Research Chair, Safety, Security, and Wellness Professor, School Maritime Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Dr. Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor (PhD, Sociology) in the School of Maritime Studies and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness, at Memorial University’s Fisheries and Marine Institute. Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, her research centers on evolving understandings of gender, vulnerabilities, risk, and experiences and issues within different facets of the criminal justice system and among mariners. She has published 12 books, 235+ journal articles and 50+ chapters all in the areas of PSP, criminalized persons, and wellness – broadly defined. As a sex and gender researcher, her interests lay in the social health, identity construction, and lived experiences of individuals. She leads a longitudinal study on the mental health and well-being experiences of correctional officers employed by Correctional Services Canada.Segregation Reform: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? (PID131) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Professor, Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology, United States
Danielle S. Rudes, Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Sam Houston State University. She is also the Deputy Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!). She is currently a Fellow with the Bureau of Justice Assistance with a focus on Enhancing Correctional Spaces and Cultures. Dr. Rudes is an expert qualitative researcher with over 20 years of experience working with corrections agencies. She is recognized for her work examining how social control organizations and their staff and clients understand, negotiate, and at times, resist change. Dr. Rudes has a broad grant portfolio with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the National Institute of Justice. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (JSAT). Her book, Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units (2022, Stanford University Press) offers an unprecedented look inside RHUs—and a resounding call to more vigorously confront the intentions and the realities of these carceral structures. It is the winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.Segregation Reform: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? (PID131) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Superintendent, Windham School District, United States
Kristina J. Hartman began her journey in correctional education during an internship at the Adult Probation Office in Waco, Texas as part of her undergraduate program of study. Following graduation, Ms. Hartman relocated to Florida and began her career with the Florida Department of Corrections in 2003. She served in various roles to include academic and special education teacher, Family Literacy and Teaching Assistant Coordinator, Education Supervisor/Principal and Bureau Chief of Programs. In October 2018, Ms. Hartman returned to Texas as the Division Director of Instruction for Windham School District, and in September of 2019, she was unanimously appointed by the Windham Board of Trustees as the district’s superintendent where her team of over 1,000 employees supports 50,000 students a year at 85 campuses in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Superintendent Hartman currently serves as the President of the Council of Education Directors for the Correctional Education Association.A Collaborative Approach to Success: Family, Community and Employer Engagement (PID130) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Executive Director, Correctional Management Institute of Texas, Sam Houston State University, United States
A Collaborative Approach to Success: Family, Community and Employer Engagement (PID130) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, United States
Bryan Collier has over 38 years of adult correctional experience and became the Executive Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) on August 1, 2016. In his current role, he oversees the operations of one of the largest adult criminal justice systems in the country; responsible for the confinement and care of over 128,000 felony inmates, the supervision of roughly 291,000 more inmates on probation or parole and the management of approximately 31,000 employees statewide. Bryan joined the TDCJ in 1985 as a Clerk and has held a wide variety of positions to include Correctional Officer, Parole Officer, Section Director, Parole Division Director, and Deputy Executive Director. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminology and Corrections from Sam Houston State University. Bryan is an active member of the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA), the American Correctional Association (ACA), and serves on the Board of the 4th Purpose Foundation. He was chosen by the CLA Board to serve as the CLA Southern Regional Chairman and is the Chair of the Recruitment and Retention Committee. Bryan was elected to serve on the ACA Board of Governors and serves as the Vice-Chair for the Performance Based Standards Committee. Bryan formerly served as president of the Texas Corrections Association (TCA) and served on the Board of Directors for the Council of State Governments Justice Center. He has been recognized as one of ACA’s “Best in the Business”, received the Dr. George J. Beto Hall of Honor award from the TCA, and was the recipient of the 2022 CLA Michael Francke award.A Collaborative Approach to Success: Family, Community and Employer Engagement (PID130) Monday @ 3:30 PM
CEO, The Children's Initiative, United States
San Diego, California - Juvenile Justice Continuum of Care from Community Interventions to State of the Art Detention Facility (PID081) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Executive Director of Justice, Vanir, United States
San Diego, California - Juvenile Justice Continuum of Care from Community Interventions to State of the Art Detention Facility (PID081) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Executive Director, Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators (CJJA), United States
San Diego, California - Juvenile Justice Continuum of Care from Community Interventions to State of the Art Detention Facility (PID081) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Chief Information Officer, Director, Information Technology Division, New Mexico Corrections Department and Past-President, Corrections Technology Association, USA
Jerry Brinegar has been with the New Mexico Corrections Department for 15 years and is in the role of Chief Information Officer. He previously served as Deputy Chief Information Officer from 2014-2019, and held prior roles as Business Analysis and Research Manager and Project Manager with the Department. Holding degrees in Computer Programming and Operations Management , his experience spans 30 years in information technology and management, deploying and supporting automated systems, project management, quality assurance, data extraction and transformation and systems development in both the public and private sectors.
Jerry is the current Past President of the Corrections Technology Association (CTA) and has been on the board of directors of CTA since 2019.
Jerry is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds the CompTIA Security+ certification.
Transforming Incarceration: The Impact of Prisoner Tablets on Daily Life Behind Bars (PID900) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Vice President of Research & Development, ViaPath Technologies, USA
Christopher Ditto is the Vice President of Research & Development for ViaPath, the largest provider of inmate communication technology in the United States. Over the last decade, Mr. Ditto has worked on building tablet resources and implementing tablet programs for over 400 correctional facilities serving over 350,000 inmates daily, as an engineer, software architect, and project manager. Mr. Ditto is based in Silicon Valley and has previously written a 500-page book, Webmaster Answers, and won a 2008 Webby Award while working for a large international interactive advertising agency. He received his Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s in Journalism from New York University.
Transforming Incarceration: The Impact of Prisoner Tablets on Daily Life Behind Bars (PID900) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Learning & Development Coordinator, New Mexico Corrections Department
To be providedTransforming Incarceration: The Impact of Prisoner Tablets on Daily Life Behind Bars (PID900) Monday @ 3:30 PM
Prison Architecture Specialist, Pick Everard, England, United Kingdom
Helena is an architect and criminologist with 18 years’ experience in justice architecture, and a lecturer at two universities in the UK. Helena joined Pick Everard, to connect research evidence and practice base. Her most recent contribution has been the HPM Glasgow project and the UK Ministry of Justice Women’s Estate scheme. Her research on salutogenic architecture of carceral spaces feeds her passion on the effects the built environment has on the users of the space, like staff and inmates, using the evidence found to inform planning and design of carceral spaces to positively impact society.A Scottish Case Study Using Mandela Rules to Enshrine Human Rights, Mental & Behavioural Wellbeing and Rehabilitation (PID044) Monday @ 4:00 PM
Governor, HMP Barlinnie, Scottish Prison Services, Scotland, United Kingdom
Governor Michael Stoney has over 30 years’ experience in the Scottish Prison Service and has been Governor-in-charge for over 15 years across 5 prisons. Currently Governor of HMP Barlinnie and Project Executive for the new HMP Glasgow he hopes to change how large prisons can operate by creation of multiple small communities, positive professional staff prisoner relationships and real engagement with communities. Using a Salutogenic, trauma informed approach we create and provide social value that will have a real health and economic impact on prisoners and the communities where they live. Previous experience of both old and modern prisons has influenced humane design that will lead to real tangible outcomes for all.A Scottish Case Study Using Mandela Rules to Enshrine Human Rights, Mental & Behavioural Wellbeing and Rehabilitation (PID044) Monday @ 4:00 PM
Director of Operations, Pick Everard, England, United Kingdom
Architect Tim Irons leads work in the Justice Sector for Pick Everard as a specialist for over 20yrs. He led design for various new build resettlement and expansion programmes for the UK Ministry of Justice. Tim’s passion for design lies on the positive impact it can have on the lives of people and its ability to reduce recidivism.A Scottish Case Study Using Mandela Rules to Enshrine Human Rights, Mental & Behavioural Wellbeing and Rehabilitation (PID044) Monday @ 4:00 PM
Commissioner General of Prison, Malaysia Prison Department, Malaysia
Dato’ Haji Nordin Bin Haji Muhamad has been with the Malaysian Prisons Department for almost 30 years. At departmental level, he has led Professionalism Development Division, Inmates Management Division and Prison Policy Division. He has been appointed as Deputy Commissioner General of Malaysian Prisons and he is the Commissioner General of Malaysia Prison Department (MPD). At the national level, he participates actively in Human Rights activities, National AIDS Council, Correctional Foundations and lecture on Correctional Leadership at International Islamic University of Malaysia. At the international level, has attended courses, seminars, forums and conferences and also being invited to give speech and shares ideas, knowledge and experiences at APCCA, ACCFA, UNODC, ICRC and ICPA.Malaysia Prison Reform Towards the "Civilized Humane Culture Development Center" (CHCDC) (PID051) Monday @ 4:00 PM
Commissioner of Prison, Malaysia Prison Departmet, Malaysia
Hafidz Othman has been with Malaysia Prison Department almost 30 years. Currently at departmental level he lead International Affairs and Transfer Prisoner Division Malaysia Prison Headquarters. He is actively work on Prison Reform idea work closely with international community through representative from foreign country Embassy in Kuala Lumpur specially with British High Commissioner, UNODC and Euro embassy representative. At International level he has attended course, seminars, forums and conference such ICPA, APCCA and he have graduate Senior Leadership Course under Her Majesty Prison and Probation Service, United Kingdom.3P: Placement, Productivity and Pay for Foreign Inmates In Reintegration Center (IRC), Malaysia Prison Department (PID023) Monday @ 4:00 PM
Program Manager, Custodial Institutions Agency, Ministry of Justice and Security, Netherlands
Boye Veldhoen, is program manager ‘Security and Prevention of Underminings Acts’ at the Custodial Institutions Agency, Ministry of Justice and Security, The Netherlands. He previously worked as the Deputy Director of the Prison in Vught, where the Extra Secured Facility for high risk offenders is situated. Based on his experience in the judicial security domain and as a strategic management advisor in charge of the security, subversion and terrorism portfolios, Boye, together with the division management, provides direction and support to the various penitentiary institutions in the Netherlands.High Risk Offenders in the Dutch Prison System (PID208) Monday @ 4:00 PM
Deputy Director, Skills@YR, Yellow Ribbon Singapore
Uplifting Offenders Through Skills Training and Employability Programmes (PID143) Monday @ 4:00 PM
Senior Correctional Rehabilitation Specialist (CRS), Singapore Prison Service, Singapore
Chew Bing Rui is a Senior Correctional Rehabilitation Specialist (CRS) and has been with the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) since 2013. He has experience in conducting forensic assessments, and individual and group counselling specialising in substance addiction. He has also managed the procurement of a suite of vendor services for inmates. Currently, Bing Rui is serving as a Lead Specialist in community corrections, where he mentors a team of CRS providing case management and counselling services to ex-offenders in the community.Uplifting Offenders Through Skills Training and Employability Programmes (PID143) Monday @ 4:00 PM
Prison Adviser and Prison Expert Witness, United Kingdom
Learning Lessons from the UK's Recent Experience of Populist Criminal Justice Policies (PID065) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction, United States
Paradigm Shift: A Model for Eliminating Restrictive Housing in the United States (PID057) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Redefining the Prison Experience for Young Adult Fathers and their Children (PID088) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
Director of Special Programs, Massachusetts Department of Correction, United States
Paradigm Shift: A Model for Eliminating Restrictive Housing in the United States (PID057) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Redefining the Prison Experience for Young Adult Fathers and their Children (PID088) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
Researcher, Project Coordinator, Bremen Ministry of Justice and Constitution, Germany
Rhianon Williams is a researcher and project coordinator at the Bremen Ministry of Justice and Constitution, developing needs-based training initiatives for prison and probation officers in Bremen, Germany, using European Union funding streams. She began her career in the voluntary sector in the UK, in a charity providing engineering training and workshops to prisoners in 11 prisons in the North of England. After moving to Germany in 2010, she began supporting the development and implementation of rehabilitation and staff training initiatives, transferring good practice and learning from across Europe, to the Ministry of Justice and Constitution in Bremen. Rhianon regularly speaks at pan-European conferences and has participated as a trainer in a number of national and European workshops and international development missions. She holds a Double Honours Degree from Kings College London, and Masters from the University of London in International Development and from the University of Edinburgh in Digital Education."I even forgot I was in prison" REEDU’s Inclusive Education Methodology for Juvenile Detention: Theory and Practice (PID176) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Deputy Director General of Prison and Probation, Bremen Ministry of Justice and Constitution, Germany
Dr. Alexander Vollbach studied sociology, education and social work with a master's degree and diploma. From 1988 to 2008 he worked at the Lower Saxony Federal Stated Hospital Moringen, Specialist hospital for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (now the Moringen Correctional Centre, Lower Saxony). From 2006 to 2016 he moved to the postion of head of department at Bremen Prison, and since 2016 he has been working from the Bremen Prison Ministry for Justice and Constitution."I even forgot I was in prison" REEDU’s Inclusive Education Methodology for Juvenile Detention: Theory and Practice (PID176) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Senior Lecturer, Researcher, The University of Newcastle, Australia
The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach (PID139) Monday @ 11:30 AM
A Modified Delphi Exercise to Develop Best Practice Principles for Programs and Services for People Exiting Custody (PID169) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Pro Vice Chancellor, Research Lead Custodial Health, The University of Newcastle, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, Australia
Professor Elizabeth Sullivan is an executive leader, public health physician & medical epidemiologist with academic & professional qualifications in public health. She is an inspirational & collaborative leader with demonstrated strategic & operational capability as an executive within the university & as a senior leader in the health sector. Professor Sullivan is an international expert in observational epidemiology, metadata development and leads high performing multi-disciplinary teams that embrace cultural & gender diversity, ensuring excellence in education, engagement & delivery of impactful research.The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach (PID139) Monday @ 11:30 AM
A Modified Delphi Exercise to Develop Best Practice Principles for Programs and Services for People Exiting Custody (PID169) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Newcastle, Australia
The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach (PID139) Monday @ 11:30 AM
A Modified Delphi Exercise to Develop Best Practice Principles for Programs and Services for People Exiting Custody (PID169) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Emeritus Professor of Criminology, Penology and Sociology of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
IACFP Distinguished Scholar Lecture - "Dignity and Identity Between Individual, Institutional and Societal Interests" (PID220) Tuesday @ 9:30 AM
Deputy Director, Idaho Department of Correction, United States
How Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Correctional Staff and Incarcerated Individuals (PID026) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
Executive Director, Offender Development, Government of South Australia Department for Correctional Services, Australia
Evaluation of Home Detention in South Australia (PID038) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
A Decade of Redevelopment – How Clear Vision and Strong Design Objectives Were Achieved in 4 SA Corrections Projects (PID078) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction, United States
Paradigm Shift: A Model for Eliminating Restrictive Housing in the United States (PID057) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Redefining the Prison Experience for Young Adult Fathers and their Children (PID088) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
Director of Special Programs, Massachusetts Department of Correction, United States
Paradigm Shift: A Model for Eliminating Restrictive Housing in the United States (PID057) Monday @ 4:30 PM
Redefining the Prison Experience for Young Adult Fathers and their Children (PID088) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
Deputy Chief Executive, Health Services, Corrections New Zealand
Driving a System-level Transformation of the New Zealand Prison System from a Human Rights Foundation (PID152) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
Assistant Social Development Officer, Department of Social Welfare Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Juvenile Justice and Neurodiversity: Accentuating Multimodal Imperatives and Approaches for Reintegrative Rehabilitation (PID095) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
Chief Executive, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network NSW, Australia
Wendy is currently the Chief Executive of Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network in New South Wales, Australia. Justice Health NSW provides Health and Mental Health services to both Adult and Youth in over 30 secure settings across the State of NSW. Wendy is a registered Nurse with a Clinical Background in Mental Health Nursing and over 20 years experience as a senior leader in mental health, hospital executive and health in secure settings. Wendy is passionate about providing equivalent care in secure settings and ensuring that all care including mental health care is provided in the least restrictive environment and way.Access Unlocked: Improving Health Care Access in Adult Correctional Settings in NSW Australia (PID025) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
Correctional Program Specialist, National Institute of Corrections, United States
"I'm Tired": Understanding Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout in Correctional Healthcare Staff (PID030) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Deputy Director, General Affairs Divsion, Rehabilitation Bureau, Japan
Strengthening Assessment in Community Corrections and Implementing Treatment Through Public-private Collaboration (PID050) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Deputy Director, Supervision Division, Rehabilitation Bureau, Ministry of Justice, Japan
Strengthening Assessment in Community Corrections and Implementing Treatment Through Public-private Collaboration (PID050) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Professor, Northeastern University, United States
Natasha A. Frost (she/her) is professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Associate Dean of Research in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Co-Director of the Center on Crime, Race, and Justice at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the causes, consequences, and impacts of mass incarceration on individuals, families and communities. Much of her recent work has focused on the impacts of conditions of confinement on those who live and work in prisons. Professor Frost is currently evaluating a young father’s unit in Massachusetts focused on family engagement and working with colleagues at four other universities on a seven state study on the sources and consequences of prison violence. Frost has also been awarded National Institute of Justice funding for a series of research projects related to officer health and wellbeing, with a specific focus on psychological distress and suicide among correction officers. Her most recent project, a longitudinal study of the careers of correction officers, seeks to distinguish the short- and long-term impacts of chronic operational and organizational stressors from impacts associated with exposures to violence and suicide. Frost was recently elected Vice President of the American Society of Criminology. Frost holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the City University of New York and an undergraduate degree in psychology from Northeastern University.The B.R.A.V.E. Unit: Incarcerated Young Fathers in Massachusetts Prisons (PID173) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Executive Director, Office of Strategic Planning and Research, Massachusetts Department of Correction, United States
Rhiana Kohl, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Research at the MADOC, where she oversees all research, evaluations, performance measures, grant management, and strategic planning. With a PhD in clinical psychology, Dr. Kohl brings both clinical expertise and extensive research experience to the project. She has been conducting research in the Massachusetts’ criminal justice system for over 20 years, collaborating on projects with partners from multiple research organizations and universities. Throughout her years overseeing research in state government, she has been dedicated to improving the quality and value of research in prisons with a focus on conveying findings to practitioners and policy makers.The B.R.A.V.E. Unit: Incarcerated Young Fathers in Massachusetts Prisons (PID173) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Lawyer, Post-doc researcher, Auth, Greece
Alternatives to Imprisonment for Drug-using Offenders: Is There a Need for a Common EU Legal Framework? (PID027) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Chief Operations Officer, Australian Community Support Organisation (ACSO), Australia
Balancing Human Rights and Community Safety - Reducing Incarceration of People with a Disability (PID172) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Director, Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, United States
The Nightmare of Sleep in Prison (PID171) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Associate Director, Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, United States
Alycia Welch, M.P.Aff., M.S.S.W., is Associate Director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on the safe and humane treatment of people in custody, with a particular focus on women and individuals living with behavioral health challenges. She has nearly 20 years of experience managing multi-partner projects reforming the justice and behavioral health systems. She directed a transitional housing program for women exiting prison or jail, developed an alternative to incarceration program for young adults, oversaw a multi-state, federally funded initiative providing training and technical assistance on behavioral health and criminal justice issues, and designed multiple studies assessing the impact of community-based programs on those who are justice-involved. The recipient of several national policy research awards, Alycia served as policy analyst for two members of the Texas House of Representatives and has authored numerous reports for state and local government officials, corrections administrators, and advocates that have been selected for inclusion in several publications and featured in major national news outlets. Alycia is a proud alum of the LBJ School, where she received her Master of Public Affairs while simultaneously earning her Master of Science in Social Work at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan.The Nightmare of Sleep in Prison (PID171) Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jeffrey Pfeifer, Ph.D., M.Leg.St. is Associate Professor of forensic psychology at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) and Adjunct Professor at Namibia University of Science and Technology. Professor Pfeifer also holds a research position with the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science and has been teaching and researching in the areas of forensic and correctional psychology for over 25 years. He has published numerous articles as well as testified as an expert witness in both Canada and the United States. Professor Pfeifer’s research has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada and Appellate Courts in Ontario and British Columbia. He is the recipient of the 2004 and 2017 International Corrections and Prisons Association Research Awards. Most recently Professor Pfeifer has been conducting a program of research on the use of technology and gaming as a platform for positively impacting the wellbeing of prison officers as well as other professionals working in the justice sector.Perceived Occupational Adversity and the Wellbeing of Community Corrections Officers: International Findings (PID022) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
Professor, United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), Japan
Mr. Naoki Tanaka is a professor at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI). He became a UNAFEI professor in April 2023, prior to which he had been working as a probation officer in several probation offices (Sapporo, Asahikawa and Tokyo) and as an officer in the Rehabilitation Bureau of Ministry of Justice in Japan since 2011. At the Rehabilitation Bureau and Tokyo Probation Office, he was mainly involved in policies and practices related to re-entry coordination of offenders with disabilities. Mr. Tanaka obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Education in 2009 and his Master’s degree in Education in 2011 from the University of Tokyo, and he is a certified clinical psychologist and public psychologist in Japan.Assisting Offenders Without Supervision, Especially for Those With Specific Needs (PID007) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
Director, Strategic Planning Division, Singapore Prison Service, Singapore
Patricia has been with the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) since 2000. Her vast career experience in the correctional field involves stints in policy development, planning, operations development, as well as management of the prison institutions. Currently, Patricia is serving in a senior management role in SPS overseeing the strategic planning arm of the department, where she plans, directs, and synergises SPS’ strategic plans and organisational excellence policies and initiatives to achieve an exemplary and forward-looking organisation with high service standards.Community Partnership to Support Families and Children of Offenders and Ex-offenders (PID140) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
Executive Director, NeuGen, Singapore
Prior to joining NeuGen, Wee Teck has been with the Singapore Prison Service since 2003. In his 19 years career, he had stints in many operational appointments and policy work. Especially close to his heart, he is passionate about issues faced by children of incarcerated parents and the risk of inter-generational offending. He understands the importance of the work NeuGen does and is excited to partner like-minded people to support the children to prevent inter-generational offending.Community Partnership to Support Families and Children of Offenders and Ex-offenders (PID140) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
Acting Chief Officer, Hong Kong Correctional Services Department, China
Creating Human Correctional Environments Through Purposeful Activity: The Efforts of Hong Kong Correctional Services (PID135) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
Doctoral Researcher, Clinical Psychologist Specializing in Neuropsychology, Autism Foundation Finland
Katri Mikkola is a clinical psychologist (MA Psych) specializing in neuropsychology and a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. She has worked several years with neuropsychiatric clientele and has also worked with clients with psychosis in the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic and with neurological clients in the Outpatient rehabilitation services. She currently works at the Autism Foundation Finland´s Revion-services. The services include training, consultancy and counselling, and rehabilitation for neurodivergent adolescents and adults with criminal or other risk behavior. Her doctoral research focuses on prevalence and screening of ADHD and autism traits and neurocognitive deficits among Finnish prisoners. In addition to her research work and Revion-services, she is also practicing clinical neuropsychological work at the Proneuron Neuropsychiatry Center.Neurodiversity-informed Practices in Prison and Probation Services (PID121) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
Chief of Party, Health through Walls, Haiti
Computer-Aided Detection (CAD): Using Artificial Intelligence to Provide Humane Treatment in Haitian Prisons (PID199) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
Chief Executive Officer, Health through Walls, United States
Advancing Humane Treatment: Determining Baseline Prevalence of TB and Associated Conditions in Mozambiques Prisons (PID180) Monday @ 12:00 PM
Computer-Aided Detection (CAD): Using Artificial Intelligence to Provide Humane Treatment in Haitian Prisons (PID199) Tuesday @ 12:00 PM
European Programme Manager, RESCALED, Ireland
Conor Dormer is a Criminologist who has worked within the Irish Prison Service in many prisons for over a decade. With vast experience within all areas of the penal system in Ireland, a postgraduate diploma in Criminology & Criminal Psychology, and a diploma in Custodial Care and Custodial Law, he is committed to affecting real change within European legislation and penology. Currently, Conor is the European Programme Manager of RESCALED, the European movement that supports detention houses rather than large prison institutions.Changing Incarceration: A Conversation from the Perspective of Lived Experience (PID189) Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Board member, RESCALED, Norway
Roger comes from a borough in Oslo that faced big problems in the 70s with intoxication among young people. Roger himself was confronted with drug problems and eventually ended up in prison. During his incarceration, he found himself again and started going to school. More specifically, he studied youth intoxication and psychiatry. Since then, he has been working with young people.Changing Incarceration: A Conversation from the Perspective of Lived Experience (PID189) Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Public Affairs & Research Manager, RESCALED, Belgium
Noa holds a Master’s degree in Criminology from VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Throughout her academic journey and professional experience, her primary focus has been on penology, entailing analyses of policy responses and an understanding of the multi-disciplinary nature of international comparative criminology. As the Public Affairs & Research Manager at RESCALED, Noa is responsible for managing strategic communication, branding efforts and event coordination. Noa is committed to supporting the use of detention houses instead of large prison institutions and bringing together actors from across Europe to effect meaningful change.Changing Incarceration: A Conversation from the Perspective of Lived Experience (PID189) Tuesday @ 1:30 PM
Head of Persons Deprived of Liberty Unit, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland
Terry is the current Head of Persons Deprived of Liberty Unit of the International Committee of the Red Cros. He brings 26 years of solid professional experience working in detention, including 17 years in management positions, a demonstrated capacity to engage high level authorities in relation to the humane treatment of detainees, and strong skills in multi-disciplinary coordination and people management. Terry holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, from the Trinity University, in Langley, Canada. He pursued his education with a Masters’ of Arts in Human Security and Peacebuilding at the Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. He is currently engaged in a Master of Advanced Studies in Law of Armed conflict, at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland. Terry joined the ICRC 5 years ago, as Prison system adviser in the Philippines, quickly developing a thorough understanding of the Detention files and the institution as a whole, building good relationships with colleagues from other departments to ensure an integrated and multidisciplinary response to detention issues. Prior to the ICRC, Terry worked as a consultant, executing various mandates, notably for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for which he developed the UNODC Nelson Mandela Rules E-learning course targeted to front line prison staff. The Mandela rules are universally acknowledged as the minimum standard for the management of prisons and the treatment of prisoners.Humanity in Detention: What About the Voice of People Deprived of Freedom? (PID207) Tuesday @ 2:15 PM
Senior Scientist, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canada
Co-Design of Healthcare Policies and Guidelines with People Who Are Incarcerated and Corrections Staff (PID056) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Providing Cell Phones and Peer Support is Effective at Engaging People After Release from Custody in to Hepatitis C Care (PID155) Wednesday @ 2:30 PM
Executive Director, Unlocking the Gates Services Society, Canada
Mo Korchinski is the Executive Director of Unlocking the Gates Service Society (UTG). Mo has had a long history with substance abuse and incarceration. Her lived history and experiences have shaped the program into what it is today. Mo has a Bachelor of Social Work from Nicola Valley Institution of Technology and was one of UTG’s first ever Peer-Mentors. Her life’s work is now dedicated to helping others break the cycle of incarceration. She is an advocate for people involved in the criminal justice system and continues to push for change at a policy-level and increased supports for her community. Mo feels strongly about the need to address trauma and support healing for people who experience incarceration.Co-Design of Healthcare Policies and Guidelines with People Who Are Incarcerated and Corrections Staff (PID056) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Peer-led Intervention to Support Clients to Vacate Warrants Following Release from Prison: A Case Study from Canada (PID132) Wednesday @ 2:00 PM
Associate Professor, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Transgender Behind Bars (PID101) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Architect, Senior Associate, Grieve Gillett Architects, Australia
A Decade of Redevelopment – How Clear Vision and Strong Design Objectives Were Achieved in 4 SA Corrections Projects (PID078) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Executive Director, Offender Development, Government of South Australia Department for Correctional Services, Australia
Evaluation of Home Detention in South Australia (PID038) Tuesday @ 11:00 AM
A Decade of Redevelopment – How Clear Vision and Strong Design Objectives Were Achieved in 4 SA Corrections Projects (PID078) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Justice Lead, STV Inc., United States
Mr. Greene, the architecture chief for STV’s justice practice, is an internationally recognized leader in the planning and design of courts, correctional facilities, and juvenile centers. He brings more than 30 years of experience in this specialized practice area, collaborating with owners, users, and communities to develop facilities that enhance the vitality of the civic realm and improve the public experience of the justice system. Mr. Greene applies leading-edge best practices to design restorative facilities that respect the dignity of detained persons and their families enabling safe and efficient justice facility operations. A pioneer at linking Design Excellence with sustainability, he is the former Leadership Group Chair for of the AIA’s Academy of Architecture for Justice, a contributor to the AIA’s Sustainable Justice Guidelines, and editor of the AIA white paper entitled Sustainable Justice 2030: Green Guide to Justice. In addition to being the recipient of two GSA Design Excellence Awards and numerous AIA merit awards and citations, Mr. Greene is an in-demand author and thought leader on the planning and design of justice facilities.How a Sustainable Building Embodies Humane Treatment and Promotes Hope and Healing (PID127) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Senior Expert & Vice President, Falcon Correctional & Community Services Inc., United States
How a Sustainable Building Embodies Humane Treatment and Promotes Hope and Healing (PID127) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
President, Erin Persky & Associates, United States
How a Sustainable Building Embodies Humane Treatment and Promotes Hope and Healing (PID127) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
PhD Candidate, University College Dublin, Ireland
Custodial Transitions: Are the Needs of Young Adults Being Met in Ireland? (PID032) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Executive Director, Supervision Around the World (SAW) Project, United States
Providing Opportunities for Global Collaboration: The Supervision Around the World Project (PID073) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Business Development Consultant - Probation Systems, Unilink Software Ltd, United Kingdom
Developing an Evidence-Based Application to Improve Wellbeing and Reduce Incidents of Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons (PID902) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Expert Advisor, De Profundis Ltd
Michael Campbell is an expert advisor to prisons and supports governors,Developing an Evidence-Based Application to Improve Wellbeing and Reduce Incidents of Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons (PID902) Tuesday @ 3:30 PM
Psychological Services Director, Justice, Serco, United Kingdom
Natalie Parrett (MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS) is a Principal Forensic Psychologist with 22 years’ experience working in prisons and secure hospitals in the UK. She is now the Psychological Services Director for the privately managed Serco prisons in the UK, providing the strategic leadership, oversight, is clinically responsible for the governance for Psychological Services and provides consultation and advice on psychological matters to the Prison Operational Directors. She has a particular interest in innovating and developing psychologically-informed prison practice, is the Clinical Lead for Social Responsibility Units (bespoke units to manage and support prisoners with a history of anti-social and violent prison behaviour) and develops psychologically informed training for prison staff. Natalie is a peer reviewer for academic journals and her research includes: Assessing female sexual offenders’ motivations and cognitions: An exploratory study; An evaluation of an Autistic Spectrum Disorder screening assessment constructed for use in a prison setting; An interpretative phenomenological analysis of prison officer experiences when working with personality disordered offenders with intellectual disabilities and Characteristics predicting completion of a psychologically informed custodial unit underpinned by the Good Lives Model: Reflections on the role of Sentence Type, Age and Ethnicity.Reducing Violence in Prisons: Involving the Prisoner Voice and Experience (PID186) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Forensic Psychologist, Serco, United Kingdom
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Reducing Violence in Prisons: Involving the Prisoner Voice and Experience (PID186) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Project Manager, Silta Rehabilitation (Silta-Valmennus NGO), Finland
Kirsi Riihijärvi is a developer working in the social sector who works in Silta Rehabilitation's non-governmental organization projects aimed at people with a criminal background. Riihijärvi's development work is especially based on Socio-Cultural Snimation and Service Design. Riihijärvi's profession is a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work and a Work Supervisor.Digital Desistance and Gender Specific Digital Rehabilitation for Offenders (PID055) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Global Design Leader, Justice+Civic, DLR Group, United States
Beyond Normative Environments to Designing for Normative Living (PID193) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Director Public Relations, National Prisons Service of South Sudan
Green Corrections; An Oasis Beyond Caged Walls (PID150) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Senior Corrections Officer, UNMISS, South Sudan
Green Corrections; An Oasis Beyond Caged Walls (PID150) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Seniour Lecturer in Design, University of Sydney, Australia
Humane Youth Justice: The Challenge of Change (PID174) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Business Development Director, Serco ASPAC, Australia
Pūwhakamua: A Tikanga Māori Rehabilitation Success in Reducing Offending and Improving Reintegration in New Zealand (PID021) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Director, Strategy and Business Development, Serco ASPAC, Australia
Pūwhakamua: A Tikanga Māori Rehabilitation Success in Reducing Offending and Improving Reintegration in New Zealand (PID021) Tuesday @ 4:00 PM
Lecturer, PhD student, Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland
Ask Me First: Participant-Led Research to Explore How an Irish Prison Environment Relates to Female Well-Being (PID072) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
Corrections Officer, United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Central African Republic
Towards Gender Parity: Empowering Women in Corrections and Peacekeeping (PID129) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
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Towards Gender Parity: Empowering Women in Corrections and Peacekeeping (PID129) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
Assistant professor, Designer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Design for Health and Wellbeing: Space and Interior Design in Detention, Special Residential Youth Homes, and Prisons (PID201) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
Professor in Carceral Geography, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Research Impact), University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Greenspace in Prison and Benefits for Prisoner and Staff Wellbeing (PID215) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
Head of Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Community Portfolio, IPS_Innovative Prison Solutions, Portugal
Children Have Human Rights Too: A Comparative Analysis of Correctional Service Staff Training in EU Youth Justice (PID166) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
Consultant & Researcher – Rehabilitation, Reintegration & Community, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal
Ana Rita Pires holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a master’s degree in Science on Emotions, both from ISCTE-IUL, in Lisbon. She has also attained an Advanced Specialisation in Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health from the CRIAP Institute. Her dissertation research project focused on the role of sensorimotor mechanisms in auditory perception, where she examined if spontaneous facial mimicry responses to vocal emotional sounds (laughter/crying) were predictive of the ability to infer the authenticity of those sounds. To do so, she collected EDA, fEMG and ECG psychophysiological data. Subsequently, she was invited to be part of a broader research team on memory and bilingualism projects, where she collected the same data. She was also invited to lecture psychophysiological measures in one of her master’s coursework. Ana Rita completed an internship at the International Relations Office of ISCTE-IUL and at MedialCare (occupational and preventive health). At IPS, Ana Rita Pires is assigned to the Rehabilitation and Reintegration portfolio of projects.Children Have Human Rights Too: A Comparative Analysis of Correctional Service Staff Training in EU Youth Justice (PID166) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
Researcher and Consultant - International Judicial Cooperation and Human Rights, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal
João Gomes holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and a Post-graduate degree in Intelligence Management and Security from the NOVA Information Management School, Portugal. João has previously worked as an intern at the Embassy of Portugal in Copenhagen, Denmark, where, for a year, he supported the Embassy in the political, diplomatic, cultural, consular, and administrative areas. Afterwards, he was a Policy Officer at the Directorate-General for External Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, in the European Political Affairs Division, in the context of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (2021). João is a member of the International Judicial Cooperation and Human Rights Portfolio team at IPS Innovative Prison Systems.Children Have Human Rights Too: A Comparative Analysis of Correctional Service Staff Training in EU Youth Justice (PID166) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
Head of Directorate for International Judicial Cooperation and Human Rights, IPS_Innovative Prison Systems, Portugal
Raquel Venâncio holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations, from the Catholic University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her master’s dissertation focused on Jihadist Terrorism in the XXI century, namely on ISIS and its propaganda machine. She was an intern at the Representation of the European Commission in Portugal, where she was in charge of press reporting to the spokesperson service and the offices of the European commissioners in Brussels, press reviews portraying the media coverage of European affairs in Portugal, and worked on missions that counted with the presence of European Commissioners alongside the organisation of international events such as “Dialogue with Citizens” and “SummerCemp”. Moreover, she was an intern at the EURODEFENSE (PT), where she investigated the European Process and the Security and Defence Institutions. Afterwards, she was part of the Portuguese National Defence Institute, overseeing defence courses. Raquel was also at the Portuguese National Innovation Agency as a project assistant, where she was responsible for collecting and analysing information for the PERIN Observatory project. At IPS, Raquel Venâncio is assigned to the International Judicial Cooperation and Human Rights portfolio, where she collaborates on several projects EU-funded projects.Children Have Human Rights Too: A Comparative Analysis of Correctional Service Staff Training in EU Youth Justice (PID166) Tuesday @ 4:30 PM
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Oxford, United Kingdom