Be Part of the Global Corrections Community…
The International Corrections and Prisons Association, in collaboration with the Center for Promoting Lifelong Learning (CPIP), is delighted to invite you to a four-day training workshop. The topic of the event is Prison Futures – Greening Prisons and it will take place from 16 – 19 September, 2019, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
ABOUT THE EVENT
The scientific evidence for climate change is now widely accepted and it is the greatest environmental threat we face today. This issue poses an enormous threat to working lives and the global economy.
The last twenty years have seen considerable attention and focus on the role of the workplace and organisations in reducing harmful emissions, reducing the use of energy and waste. Prisons are not an exception: they need to look closely at the role they play in contributing to the climate change and the strategies they can implement to reduce their contribution. Prisons burn energy, consume resources and generate waste. As institutions, they engage in mass food production; use significant amounts of water and energy; and require significant transportation systems in order to function. Prisons like other institutions need to explore alternative ways of ‘doing the business’ and greening their approach.
The evidence is growing to show that corrections can achieve substantial cost savings in sustainability or greening strategies. The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) proposals, which will be explored in this workshop, provide correctional professionals with a framework to gain a general understanding of sustainability practices and principles and to identify examples of operations, programmes, and management strategies for self-sustaining facilities. The workshop will explore greening of correctional facilities; completing the sustainable model – preparing and training inmates; correctional industries – creating sustainable products/services and a green workforce; green re-entry programs; recommendations for greening prisons; and conclude with the sustainable correctional/detention facility of the future.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Prison staff officials working from individual prisons and also from national level.
PROGRAMME DRAFT*
| Day 1 – 16 September 2019 |
Arrival and social networking – introduction of the structure of the programme
| Day 2 – 17 September 2019 |
Instructors:
Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, Psychotherapist and former governor at Norway’s Bastøy Prison
Ed Wozniak – Correctional Expert Former ICPA Executive Director
Mugur Pop – President of Discover Nature NGO
Facilitator:
Gary Hill – ICPA Staff Training and Development Network Chair
Rodica Pana – President, CPIP
9:00-9:15 Greetings/Introductions Welcome & Introduction
Moderator: Gary Hill, Chair, ICPA Staff Training and Development Network
9:15-9:30 Programme Overview
Gary Hill, Chair, ICPA Staff Training and Development Network
9:30-10:30 The Greening of Corrections: Creating a Sustainable System (The National Institute of Corrections (NIC)).-part (I)
Q&A
Ed Wozniak – Correctional Expert, Former ICPA Executive Director
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:30 Representatives from participating countries will present a description of their prison system and the main challenges they face in adopting a ‘green’ correctional agenda.
Each country will have allocated 40 minutes for presentation.
Each presentation will be followed by a 20 min Q&A session
Ed Wozniak – Correctional Expert, Former ICPA Executive Director
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 The Green Agenda: How to transform a Static Security prison into a Dynamic Organism for change and growth. The Wheel of Dynamic Change.
The Experience of Bastøy
Bastøy Prison is a medium-low security prison on Bastøy Island. The prison is on a small island and houses 125 inmates with a staff of 75 prison employees.
Previously a prison colony for young offenders, the facility aims to become “the first ecological prison in the world”. Reoffending rates have been reported at 16%,compared to a European average of around 70%. Inmates are housed in wooden cottages and work on the prison farm.
Q&A
Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, Psychotherapist and Former Governor, Norway’s Bastøy Prison
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45-17:30 Green Corrections: Lessons Learned and Action Plans: Developing a Way Forward.
This session will explore ways in which attendees can use the time in the Workshop to develop viable actions plans to take back to their respective jurisdictions.
Each Participant will be asked to develop a 5 Point Green Action for their individual Jurisdictions/establishments.
Q&A
Gary Hill, Chair, ICPA Staff Training and Development Network
17:30 Wrap-up
19:00 Dinner & Discussion
| Day 3 – 18 September 2019 |
9:30-10:30 Bridging the Gap: Understanding our Green Environment
This session will in a very practical way help to demonstrate that human understanding of the environment is intricately wrapped up in our experiences of the environment.
It will encourage people to interact tangibly in and with nature, by drawing attention to the way humans and non-humans (including plants) are active co-habitants of our environment, including prisons.
Presentation
Q&A
Mugur Pop, President of Discover Nature NGO
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:45 Nature at first hand (Clinical roles and scope of service within justice systems)
Practical Session
Mugur Pop, President of Discover Nature NGO
12:45-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Preparation of 5 Point Plans
Group Exercise
Mugur Pop, President of Discover Nature NGO
Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, Psychotherapist and Former Governor, Norway’s Bastøy Prison
14:30-16:00 Presentation of Participants’ 5 Point Action Plans and Discussion
Group Exercise
16:00-17:00 Review of the Workshop
Gary Hill, Chair, ICPA Staff Training and Development Network
Ed Wozniak – Correctional Expert, Former ICPA Executive Director
Rodica Pana – President, CPIP
19:00 Dinner and discussions, closing remarks
| Day 4 – 19 September 2019 |
Departure of the Participants
* This is just a draft of the programme. There might be some changes over the course to the event.
PRESENTERS
Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, Psychotherapist and former governor at Norway’s Bastøy Prison
Ed Wozniak – Correctional Expert Former ICPA Executive Director
Mugur Pop – President of Discover Nature NGO
Gary Hill – ICPA Staff Training and Development Network Chair
FEES & REGISTRATION
The workshop fee is € 300(€ 250 for ICPA Individual /Professional Members).
The fee includes:
Please note that ICPA is not able to cover flights or any other travel fees. Participants have to make these arrangements themselves.
If you would like to register for the event, please download this form (Click here), fill in the details and send it back to contacticpa@icpa.org .
Bear in mind that we could only accommodate 15 participants!
Registration deadline: 30.08.2019
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