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Our 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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The Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) has gathered disturbing evidence from across five continents of the health impacts of growing levels of prison overcrowding. With first-hand descriptions from people who have endured the misery of cramped, unsafe, disease-ridden prisons, this report reveals how overcrowded, unhealthy prison environments now blight the justice systems of many countries, with serious consequences for public health and community safety. A new report, Towards a health-informed approach to penal reform? Evidence from ten countries, is published today by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), at Birkbeck, University of London. The report, by Catherine Heard (Director of ICPR’s World Prison Research Programme), examines the effects […]
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In collaboration with the Administration Générale Maisons de Justice (Belgian Probation Service FR), the International Corrections and Prisons Association organised a workshop on 18th June 2019 in Brussels to assess the possibility of conducting future projects concerning the research, development and standardization of electronic monitoring technologies. The aim of this one-day workshop was to ascertain the viability of convening an ICPA Taskforce under ‘Strategic Focal Point #1: Reducing Reoffending’, which would comprise a number of experts with cross-sector representation from the correctional community to look at how can we better develop, use, and implement Electronic Monitoring instruments. The hypothesis was that a better comprehension of both worlds (private sector and […]
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Corrective Services NSW cordially invites you to the 4th World Congress on Probation, which will be held at the Sofitel Hotel, Sydney NSW in September this year. The theme of this years Congress is “Building public confidence in community offender management.” Be part of the conversation as leading criminologists, international experts and practitioners from around the world join together in Sydney to share their knowledge and expertise in managing offenders in the community. Keynote speakers include: Professor Fergus McNeill, University of Glasgow – Criminology and Social Work Dr Don Weatherburn, Executive Director of NSW BOCSAR Professor Faye Taxman, George Mason University – Criminology Michael Spurr CB, Former chief executive of […]
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The International Corrections and Prisons Association is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Advancing Corrections Journal – Issue #8! The Journal invites submission of papers that can be digested and appreciated by practitioners, managers, policy-makers and other correctional professionals. Authors are welcomed to submit papers for one of three sections of the Journal. Featured Research Articles should be more research oriented and scholarly, including the usual practice of referencing the relevant literature. Another section called Views and Reviews welcomes shorter and thoughtful discussions of a particularly relevant or emerging issue/topic. And finally, a section we are calling Practice Innovation in Corrections would like to profile what is going […]
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This article was originally published in the ICPA External Prison Oversight and Human Rights Network’s Newsletter Issue #2 – http://bit.ly/2D4eg5n The Australian Capital Territory Office of the Inspector of Correctional Services (ACT OICS) was established in 2017 to provide independent oversight of ACT Correctional and Youth Justice facilities, focusing on continual improvement and prevention of ill-treatment. This oversight is provided through conducting periodic examination and reviews of ACT Correctional facilities and services, and reviewing critical incidents. The ACT Inspector of Correctional Services is Neil McAllister. He was appointed to the position in March 2018 for a five year term. There are two other staff members, the Deputy Inspector, Rebecca Minty, and a […]
Read MoreThe 4th World Congress on Probation invites individuals, agencies and organisations interested in presenting papers at the 4th World Congress on Probation to submit proposals for consideration. The theme for the Congress is “Building Public Confidence in Community Offender Management”. The organisers invite submissions from both public and private sector practitioners, the non-government sector, academics and researchers, justice officials, international organisations, consultants and others engaged in community corrections and related correctional services. Submissions are encouraged from jurisdictions in the process of developing and implementing probation services as well as those with well-established services. The Congress will be hosted by Corrective Services NSW, in Sydney, Australia from 18 – 20 September […]
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