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The mission and the aim of the Kosovo Correctional Service is, together in cooperation with all other Justice partners and in full and continuous compliance with the Kosovo laws, to correct and re-socialize prisoners, by respecting their fundamental rights, regardless of their race, language and religion, as well as to provide a safe environment for staff, prisoners and society. The vision of the KCS is to develop an advanced Correctional Service, which is to function in accordance with the law, and the most advanced international rules and standards. Kosovo Correctional Service is committed to promotion of equality in all spheres of work and action. It is also dedicated towards a […]
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Beyond the Wall is a newsletter which comprises articles, opinions, interviews, case studies, researches and best practices from contributing authors and members across our Global Corrections Community. This newsletter is for those who would like to be kept informed with information across the prisons and correctional field and to stay abreast of what’s happening in our Association. The 2019 Autumn Edition of ICPA’s newsletter Beyond the Wall is now available. In this issue: Prisons 2.0 – A Community Version (Portugal), “Think Like a Scientist” Prison Course: Teaching a Way of Thinking (Canada), The reintegration of prisoners by work in Belgium: new management, new perspectives (Belgium), The nature of power in prisons (Ireland), Reframing the Landscape […]
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ICPA is a project partner in the European Career Counselling Guidelines for Staff Working in Criminal Correctional Justice System (CCJ4) project. This project sets out to discover the extent to which there is an ideal approach for prison staff career management. It will also identify the elements of that model. Our aim, so far unexploited in any European project, is to look at the process of cultural change within the prison environment, reflecting on the career of the staff and on the support provided for the inmates. It explores the potential result of a foresight research on careers in correctional justice system, from 9 piloting countries, but with European and […]
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On 2-3 April 2019, Lisbon was host to the third edition of the Technology in Corrections (TIC) conference. ICPA and EuroPris organized the event with the support of the Directorate-General of Reintegration and Prison Services (DGRSP). The conference attracted over 259 attendees from 51 countries, demonstrating the interest and the timeliness of the topic of technology within the corrections space. During the conference we were conveying surveys in order to better understand the delegates, the situation in their jurisdictions, and what could be enhanced. This report gives a brief overview of our findings. Read Report TIC2019 Event Page Published on: 16/07/2019
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Consultancy services in the areas of management, rehabilitation and reintegration of violent and extremist prisoners in the Western Balkans region In the framework of the continued assistance to the authorities of the Western Balkans Beneficiaries, as of 24 May 2019, the Council of Europe has launched a continuation of the Horizontal Facility Programme Phase II (HF II), funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe, implemented by the Council of Europe, with duration of 36 months. As part of HF II, separate regional project on “Enhancing penitentiary capacities in addressing radicalisation in prisons in Western Balkans” will be implemented, as well as country-specific ‘radicalisation in prisons’ components under […]
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The General Directorate “Execution of Sentences”, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Bulgaria hosted an international seminar in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The event took place between 5 and 6 June 2019. The theme of the seminar was “Different Approached to Prevent and Counter Radicalisation and Violent Extremism in Prison and Probation Services – Challenges and Perspectives”. This gathering was initiated within the framework of the TRAin TRAINING Project (Transfer of Educational Approaches in Radicalisation), funded by the Justice Programme of the European Union, and applied in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice of Italy and the Judicial Training Institute of Belgium (IGO). The focus of the event was aimed at: sharing of […]
Read MoreOur invitation to the 3rd Technology in Corrections Conference in Lisbon, organised by ICPA and EuroPris in 2019, was warmly welcomed. Our research and scholarly collaboration has arrived at an interesting juncture – to assess and evaluate the ethical and moral implications of digitization in the correctional landscape. Our presentation looked to the conference delegates for their responses to a number of ethical and moral challenges. Using the interactive Menti software we invited delegates to record their responses to a series of statements that we designed to illicit a deeper understanding of what they considered to be of importance, value and priority. The findings of this interactive survey are reported […]
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The International Corrections and Prisons Association is pleased to announce the seventh issue of the journal “Advancing Corrections”. This Edition of Advancing Corrections is giving focus to ‘Community Corrections’. Community Corrections is an umbrella term we use to describe all of the things we do in the community to assist justice involved individuals in their reintegration journeys. There are papers in this Edition that that challenge us in going further in how we engage and collaborate with our communities (as they do, for example, in Japan and in Singapore). From a North American perspective, maybe one of the things we should accept is that rather than just doing things as usual, with some adjustment at the edges, we can learn from international practice that has truly pushed the […]
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One of the most memorable highlights of my career was to be given the privilege of establishing an operational Research Branch within the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) – many years ago! At the time, very few correctional agencies had their own research units. I recall how we began to inter-change with our colleagues in the research division of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons – always amicably though not always in agreement! There were also small research units we were aware of in the UK Home Office and in Scotland. But the benefits of having an internal research capacity were not yet broadly recognized by most correctional agencies. Encouragingly, […]
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DERAD is a European Project that aims to prevent the escalation of radicalization in the prison environment and help prisoners and probationers who are often exposed to Jihadist recruitment or self-radicalization to overcome the different problems and push factors usually exploited by recruiters, aspects that DERAD project aims to approach. The Council of the EU published the “Draft Council Conclusions on preventing and combating radicalisation in prison and on dealing with terrorist and violent extremist offenders after released”, adopted by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union on 16th May 2019. In this document the DERAD project leaded by the Triveneto Directorate of the Italian Ministry of Justice […]
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