ICPA Antwerp 2023

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With around 300 speakers and more than 150 presentations, our programme spans across six days, comprising plenary sessions and parallel workshops, correctional facility visits, awards ceremony, networking events and more.
 
See below to view the programme schedule and content. Click on the sessions to view descriptions, speakers and biographies.

ICPA 2023 Programme

Sunday 22 October
7pm – 9pm EDT
Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception

Monday 23 October
8.45am – 8.55am EDT
Opening Ceremony

Plenary Session

8.55am – 9.05am EDT
Welcome and Introduction

Plenary Session

9.05am – 9.15am EDT
Opening Speech

Plenary Session

9.15am – 9.25am EDT
Host Country Speech

Plenary Session

9.25am – 9.30am EDT
Host City Welcome

Plenary Session

9.30am – 10.30am EDT
Humanity and Dignity in Corrections (PID219)

Plenary Session

10.30am – 11am EDT
Break and Exhibition

Break and Exhibition

11am – 11.30am EDT
Prison Family Unit - A Therapeutical Environment for Babies and Parents (PID034)

Workshop Session

Women in Prison and Previous Victimization: The Need for a Partnership with Women's Shelters (PID165)

Workshop Session

Healthcare Performance Assessment of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service - A Pilot Project (PID068)

Workshop Session

With Good Reason: A Study of the Alignment of Prison Conditions in Bolivia and Honduras with the Nelson Mandela Rules (PID151)

Workshop Session

11am – 12.30pm EDT
Practice Transfer Taskforce and Case Study: Can the Global Game Help Solve the Global Problem of Recidivism? (PID223)

Workshop Session

11.30am – 12pm EDT
Identification and Support for Children with a Family Member in Prison - What Works and What Are the Challenges? (PID009)

Workshop Session

The Next Generation of Mothers and Children’s Programs - An Evidence-based Approach (PID139)

Workshop Session

Ghana Prisons Surgical Project - A Tool For Creating Humane Corrections - Medium Security Prisons, Nsawam As A Case Study (PID213)

Workshop Session

‘Not Just Another New Prison Building’: A New Prison Delivering a Psychologically Informed Operating Model (PID058)

Workshop Session

11.45am – 12.30pm EDT
Preserving Identity: The Role of Technology in Upholding Religious and Cultural Freedoms for Indigenous Peoples in Prison (PID002)

Workshop Session

12pm – 12.30pm EDT
Best Interests of the Child: A Global Assessment of Conditions of Detention and Age Restrictions (PID100)

Workshop Session

Alvis Family & Children's Program, a Community Re-entry Program that Serves Justice Involved Mothers and their Children (PID091)

Workshop Session

Advancing Humane Treatment: Determining Baseline Prevalence of TB and Associated Conditions in Mozambiques Prisons (PID180)

Workshop Session

Improving Prison Environments to Maximize Inmate Outcomes (PID069)

Workshop Session

12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT
Lunch and Exhibition

Lunch and Exhibition

1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
The Council of Europe: How to Make the Imprisonment Effective and Humane at the Same Time? (PID062)

Plenary Session

2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Iso: Perspectives on Solitary Confinement Practices in the Netherlands (PID209)

Plenary Session

3pm – 3.30pm EDT
Break and Exhibition

Break and Exhibition

3.30pm – 4pm EDT
East-West and In Between (PID184)

Workshop Session

Bringing Human Rights to Correctional Policy and Practice in Kenya (PID006)

Workshop Session

Pretrial Detention Needs Rethink (PID103)

Workshop Session

Segregation Reform: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? (PID131)

Workshop Session

A Collaborative Approach to Success: Family, Community and Employer Engagement (PID130)

Workshop Session

3.30pm – 4.30pm EDT
San Diego, California - Juvenile Justice Continuum of Care from Community Interventions to State of the Art Detention Facility (PID081)

Workshop Session

Transforming Incarceration: The Impact of Prisoner Tablets on Daily Life Behind Bars (PID900)

Major Sponsor Presentation

4pm – 4.30pm EDT
A Scottish Case Study Using Mandela Rules to Enshrine Human Rights, Mental & Behavioural Wellbeing and Rehabilitation (PID044)

Workshop Session

Malaysia Prison Reform Towards the "Civilized Humane Culture Development Center" (CHCDC) (PID051)

Workshop Session

3P: Placement, Productivity and Pay for Foreign Inmates In Reintegration Center (IRC), Malaysia Prison Department (PID023)

Workshop Session

High Risk Offenders in the Dutch Prison System (PID208)

Workshop Session

Uplifting Offenders Through Skills Training and Employability Programmes (PID143)

Workshop Session

4.30pm – 5pm EDT
Learning Lessons from the UK's Recent Experience of Populist Criminal Justice Policies (PID065)

Workshop Session

Paradigm Shift: A Model for Eliminating Restrictive Housing in the United States (PID057)

Workshop Session

"I even forgot I was in prison" REEDU’s Inclusive Education Methodology for Juvenile Detention: Theory and Practice (PID176)

Workshop Session

A Modified Delphi Exercise to Develop Best Practice Principles for Programs and Services for People Exiting Custody (PID169)

Workshop Session

7pm – 9pm EDT
The Host’s Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception

Tuesday 24 October
8.15am – 9.15am EDT
Network Group Discussions

Network Group Discussions

9.30am – 10.30am EDT
IACFP Distinguished Scholar Lecture - "Dignity and Identity Between Individual, Institutional and Societal Interests" (PID220)

Plenary Session

10.30am – 11am EDT
Break and Exhibition

Break and Exhibition

11am – 11.30am EDT
How Connection Can Improve Outcomes for Correctional Staff and Incarcerated Individuals (PID026)

Workshop Session

Evaluation of Home Detention in South Australia (PID038)

Workshop Session

Redefining the Prison Experience for Young Adult Fathers and their Children (PID088)

Workshop Session

Driving a System-level Transformation of the New Zealand Prison System from a Human Rights Foundation (PID152)

Workshop Session

Juvenile Justice and Neurodiversity: Accentuating Multimodal Imperatives and Approaches for Reintegrative Rehabilitation (PID095)

Workshop Session

Access Unlocked: Improving Health Care Access in Adult Correctional Settings in NSW Australia (PID025)

Workshop Session

11.30am – 12pm EDT
"I'm Tired": Understanding Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout in Correctional Healthcare Staff (PID030)

Workshop Session

Strengthening Assessment in Community Corrections and Implementing Treatment Through Public-private Collaboration (PID050)

Workshop Session

The B.R.A.V.E. Unit: Incarcerated Young Fathers in Massachusetts Prisons (PID173)

Workshop Session

Alternatives to Imprisonment for Drug-using Offenders: Is There a Need for a Common EU Legal Framework? (PID027)

Workshop Session

Balancing Human Rights and Community Safety - Reducing Incarceration of People with a Disability (PID172)

Workshop Session

The Nightmare of Sleep in Prison (PID171)

Workshop Session

12pm – 12.30pm EDT
Perceived Occupational Adversity and the Wellbeing of Community Corrections Officers: International Findings (PID022)

Workshop Session

Assisting Offenders Without Supervision, Especially for Those With Specific Needs (PID007)

Workshop Session

Community Partnership to Support Families and Children of Offenders and Ex-offenders (PID140)

Workshop Session

Creating Human Correctional Environments Through Purposeful Activity: The Efforts of Hong Kong Correctional Services (PID135)

Workshop Session

Neurodiversity-informed Practices in Prison and Probation Services (PID121)

Workshop Session

Computer-Aided Detection (CAD): Using Artificial Intelligence to Provide Humane Treatment in Haitian Prisons (PID199)

Workshop Session

12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT
Lunch and Exhibition

Lunch and Exhibition

1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Changing Incarceration: A Conversation from the Perspective of Lived Experience (PID189)

Plenary Session

2.15pm – 3pm EDT
Humanity in Detention: What About the Voice of People Deprived of Freedom? (PID207)

Plenary Session

3pm – 3.30pm EDT
Break and Exhibition

Break and Exhibition

3.30pm – 4pm EDT
Co-Design of Healthcare Policies and Guidelines with People Who Are Incarcerated and Corrections Staff (PID056)

Workshop Session

Transgender Behind Bars (PID101)

Workshop Session

A Decade of Redevelopment – How Clear Vision and Strong Design Objectives Were Achieved in 4 SA Corrections Projects (PID078)

Workshop Session

How a Sustainable Building Embodies Humane Treatment and Promotes Hope and Healing (PID127)

Workshop Session

Custodial Transitions: Are the Needs of Young Adults Being Met in Ireland? (PID032)

Workshop Session

Providing Opportunities for Global Collaboration: The Supervision Around the World Project (PID073)

Workshop Session

3.30pm – 4.30pm EDT
Developing an Evidence-Based Application to Improve Wellbeing and Reduce Incidents of Suicide and Self-Harm in Prisons (PID902)

Major Sponsor Presentation

4pm – 4.30pm EDT
Reducing Violence in Prisons: Involving the Prisoner Voice and Experience (PID186)

Workshop Session

Digital Desistance and Gender Specific Digital Rehabilitation for Offenders (PID055)

Workshop Session

Beyond Normative Environments to Designing for Normative Living (PID193)

Workshop Session

Green Corrections; An Oasis Beyond Caged Walls (PID150)

Workshop Session

Humane Youth Justice: The Challenge of Change (PID174)

Workshop Session

Pūwhakamua: A Tikanga Māori Rehabilitation Success in Reducing Offending and Improving Reintegration in New Zealand (PID021)

Workshop Session

4.30pm – 5pm EDT
Ask Me First: Participant-Led Research to Explore How an Irish Prison Environment Relates to Female Well-Being (PID072)

Workshop Session

Towards Gender Parity: Empowering Women in Corrections and Peacekeeping (PID129)

Workshop Session

Design for Health and Wellbeing: Space and Interior Design in Detention, Special Residential Youth Homes, and Prisons (PID201)

Workshop Session

Greenspace in Prison and Benefits for Prisoner and Staff Wellbeing (PID215)

Workshop Session

Children Have Human Rights Too: A Comparative Analysis of Correctional Service Staff Training in EU Youth Justice (PID166)

Workshop Session

They All Come Out: Mapping the Desistence Journeys of 200 Men Leaving HM Prison Bullingdon over 18 Months (PID077)

Workshop Session

5.30pm – 6.30pm EDT
ICPA Annual General Meeting

ICPA Annual General Meeting

Wednesday 25 October
9am – 9.15am EDT
Regional Day Welcome and Introduction

Plenary Session

9.15am – 9.50am EDT
Towards Improving Humane Detention and Re-integration: New Roles in a New Prison Culture (PID012)

Plenary Session

9.50am – 10.30am EDT
Small Scale Detention: The First Detention House in Belgium (PID003)

Plenary Session

10.30am – 11am EDT
Break and Exhibition

Break and Exhibition

11am – 11.30am EDT
Life After Custody: How to Make it Work? A Belgian Approach of Probation and Community Services (PID206)

Workshop Session

Together, Learning and Thinking about Punishment (PID020)

Workshop Session

Boxing Behind Bars (PID113)

Workshop Session

Drugs and Detention: When Justice and Public Health Come Together to Develop a Model of Care for Incarcerated Users (PID054)

Workshop Session

Educational Center Wortel: A Complicated Marriage Between Restorative Purposes and a Prison System (PID029)

Workshop Session

Documentary Series about Detention as a Lever for Change (PID205)

Workshop Session

11.30am – 12pm EDT
The Complexity of Re-entry Among Incarcerated People in Flanders and Brussels (Be.): Insights from the BRuG-project Survey (PID125)

Workshop Session

Teaching the Use of the Same Personality Type Tool to Staff and Inmates to Reinforce Dynamic Security Opportunities (PID148)

Workshop Session

Sport in Prison: More than an Individual Tool for Social Reintegration; A Collective Tool for Social Cohesion (PID064)

Workshop Session

Ten Years of PPP in Belgian Prisons: What Opportunities for the Reintegration of Prisoners and their Living Conditions? (PID204)

Workshop Session

Good Practices in a Bad Environment (PID060)

Workshop Session

12pm – 12.30pm EDT
How Can We Support Correctional Officer Wellbeing? Mixed Method Results and Recommendations (PID098)

Workshop Session

How, Why, for Whom and Under Which Circumstances Do Participatory Music Programs in Prison Work: Preliminary Findings (PID014)

Workshop Session

Multi-agency Approach of Radicalized Inmates in Belgium (PID108)

Workshop Session

The Impacts of Purposeful Activity, Education and Training on Delivering Humane Correctional Environments (PID083)

Workshop Session

Bridges Outside with Cellmade (PID203)

Workshop Session

12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT
Lunch and Exhibition

Lunch and Exhibition

1.30pm – 2pm EDT
The Implementation of Good Lives Model in Daily Life and Rehabilitation of Offenders (PID001)

Workshop Session

Preventing Aggression: Prevention Strategies and Training of Staff Members in High-security Forensic Psychiatry (PID191)

Workshop Session

When Care Takes it Over: Detainees Growing Older in Dignity (PID217)

Workshop Session

Development of a BelRAI Screener Detention for Correctional Facilities (PID031)

Workshop Session

Prison Foodways in Oudenaarde (PID061)

Workshop Session

The Practice and Promise of Peer Programs in Prison (PID045)

Workshop Session

2pm – 2.30pm EDT
Cooperation as an Answer to the Complexity of Reintegration of Prisoners (PID119)

Workshop Session

Dynamic Security – Yes, We Can! A Lithuanian – Norwegian Partnership to Improve Quality of Lithuanian Prison Service (PID114)

Workshop Session

Community Based Health in Detention - A Model to Improve Health and Wellbeing for People Deprived of their Liberty (PID134)

Workshop Session

Violence Risk Screening in the Prison Setting: Improving Prison Safety and Reducing Violent Recidivism (PID079)

Workshop Session

Humane Corrections: A New Approach for Food in Prison (PID211)

Workshop Session

Peer-led Intervention to Support Clients to Vacate Warrants Following Release from Prison: A Case Study from Canada (PID132)

Workshop Session

2.30pm – 3pm EDT
Michigan Department of Corrections Vocational Village Overview (PID124)

Workshop Session

Safety Dilemmas in Prison Management: Findings from Research on Prison Violence in the Netherlands (PID087)

Workshop Session

Triangle: An International Collaboration (Erasmus+) and Education Project in Prisons (PID010)

Workshop Session

The Risk Screener-Youth. A Novel Tool for Easy and Efficient Evaluation of Recidivism Risk in Juveniles and Young Adults (PID076)

Workshop Session

Supporting Humane Corrections Through the Provision of Books, Libraries and Reading to People Deprived of Liberty (PID019)

Workshop Session

Providing Cell Phones and Peer Support is Effective at Engaging People After Release from Custody in to Hepatitis C Care (PID155)

Workshop Session

3pm – 3.30pm EDT
Break and Exhibition

Break and Exhibition

3.30pm – 4.15pm EDT
Digital Transformation in Belgian Prisons: Improving the Daily Life of Inmates and Staff (PID011)

Plenary Session

4.15pm – 5pm EDT
The New Prison of Haren: A New Approach (PID046)

Plenary Session

6.30pm – 7.30pm EDT
Welcome Cocktail

Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony

7.30pm – 11.30pm EDT
Special Event Dinner and ICPA Correctional Excellence Awards Ceremony

Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony

Thursday 26 October
9am – 9.45am EDT
“Humanity is important in prison... it starts with staff”: Lessons Learned from a U.S. Culture Change Training Program (PID040)

Plenary Session

9.45am – 10.30am EDT
Building Community Corrections Capacity: Learning from International Experience (PID210)

Plenary Session

10.30am – 11am EDT
Break and Exhibition

Break and Exhibition

11am – 11.30am EDT
“What Else Matters… For All of Us?” Integrating Restorative Practice (PID142)

Workshop Session

Gender-Responsive Correctional Rehabilitation Landscape in Singapore Prison Service (PID141)

Workshop Session

You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup: Implementing Peer Support Teams to Improve Corrections Worker Health (PID092)

Workshop Session

Towards the Humane Management of Prison Violence in the Irish Prison Service (PID033)

Workshop Session

The Role of Agency/Facility Culture in Reducing the Use of Isolation and Improving Staff Retention in Secure Facilities (PID053)

Workshop Session

Civic Engagement Behind Bars: Voting and Voice (PID178)

Workshop Session

11.30am – 12pm EDT
Restorative Action Planning(C): Teaching Staff & Offenders How to R.A.P. (PID107)

Workshop Session

DRC Prisons: A March Towards Gender Mainstreaming (PID183)

Workshop Session

Correction Officer Stories - The Hidden Voice (PID080)

Workshop Session

Study on Deaths in Chilean Prisons from January 2019 to December 2022. Panorama, Diagnosis and Proposals (PID160)

Workshop Session

The Management of People Serving Life Sentences in Ireland: A Human Rights-based Strategy from Committal to Release (PID047)

Workshop Session

Humanity in Action: Revolutionising Criminal Justice Through a Whole Systems Approach (PID170)

Workshop Session

12pm – 12.30pm EDT
Giving up Crime: Empowering the Prisoner as Owner of the Change Process (PID147)

Workshop Session

Born Out of the ICPA 2022 Meeting: A Multisector Collaboration Addressing Needs of Honduran Women Deprived of Liberty (PID066)

Workshop Session

"Between the Blue and Green": Building Community Cohesion within a Correctional Centre (PID013)

Workshop Session

Improving Serious Injury Tracking and Reporting in New York City Jails (PID035)

Workshop Session

Prison Audits to Reduce Overcrowding in Prisons in Africa (PID084)

Workshop Session

12.30pm – 1.30pm EDT
Lunch and Exhibition

Lunch and Exhibition

1.30pm – 2pm EDT
Four Countries, Four Uniforms, Four Cultures, One Common Goal - To Improve Correctional Facilities (PID109)

Workshop Session

The Benefits and Challenges of Prison Visits: Insights from a Large-scale Dutch Study on Prison Visitation (PID126)

Workshop Session

Enhancing Human-centered Penitentiary System in Georgia (PID128)

Workshop Session

Assessing the Quality of Life and Prison Climate in Israeli Correctional Facilities: A Comprehensive Survey (PID162)

Workshop Session

1.30pm – 2.15pm EDT
Towards Freedom – Using Probationary Liberty Under Supervision to Reduce Reoffending and Enhance Desistance (PID112)

Workshop Session

1.30pm – 2.30pm EDT
Achieving Meaningful Human Rights Reforms in Corrections through External Prison Oversight (PID089)

Workshop Session

2pm – 2.30pm EDT
Moving from Blame to Accountability: Lessons from a State Correctional System (PID181)

Workshop Session

How Can Courtesy Stigma Explain the Visitation Experience of Prison Visitors? (PID093)

Workshop Session

Evaluation of Digital Technological Developments in Terms of Prisoners' Freedom of Communication (PID190)

Workshop Session

Human Rights in Indian Prisons: Challenges and Changes in Policy, Procedures and Practices (PID185)

Workshop Session

2.30pm – 3pm EDT
Correctional Oversight in the United States (PID122)

Workshop Session

From Soviet Prison Officer to Mentor - Countries Discussed: Latvia and Norway (PID164)

Workshop Session

Breaking the Cycle of Violence Through Social Integration (PID039)

Workshop Session

"Smart Prison" in Hong Kong (PID016)

Workshop Session

Norwegian Correctional Service and Human Rights - Far From a Perfect Match: Examining Challenges and Opportunities (PID188)

Workshop Session

3pm – 3.30pm EDT
Break and Exhibition

Break and Exhibition

3.30pm – 4pm EDT
European Prison Observatory (PID216)

Plenary Session

4pm – 4.30pm EDT
All Hands on Deck: Singapore Prison Service’s Correctional Approach (PID221)

Plenary Session

4.30pm – 4.45pm EDT
Invitation to Singapore 2024

Plenary Session

4.45pm – 4.55pm EDT
Closing Speech

Plenary Session

4.55pm – 5pm EDT
Closing Remarks

Plenary Session

Friday 27 October
7am – 2pm EDT
Prison of Leuze-en-Hainaut

Prison/Facility Visits

7.30am – 1.30pm EDT
Prison of Beveren

Prison/Facility Visits

Prison of Hasselt

Prison/Facility Visits

7.45am – 1.15pm EDT
Prison of Ittre

Prison/Facility Visits

8am – 1pm EDT
Prison of Haren

Prison/Facility Visits

8.15am – 1pm EDT
Prison of Dendermonde

Prison/Facility Visits

8.30am – 12.30pm EDT
Forensic Psychiatric Centre Antwerp

Prison/Facility Visits

 
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