Advancing Corrections Journal - Edition #3 - Innovative Approaches for Service-delivery to Offenders (ACJ3-A008)

Article 8: Human Rights Are Good Corrections-A Partnership Between The Kenya Prisons (ACJ3-A008)

Authors

Terry Hackett

Head of Unit, Persons Deprived of Liberty, International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland

Terry Hackett assumed the post of Head of the Persons Deprived of Liberty Unit for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva in February 2022. Terry joined the ICRC in 2018 as a Prison System Adviser following a 22-year career with the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) where he began his career as a Correctional Officer and retired as the as the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Operations (Pacific).

During his tenure with CSC, Terry held various positions including Director of Operations (Pacific) and Director of several federal institutions. Terry has been called on to present on penitentiary issues in seminars and conferences around the world. He has worked with various detaining authorities in East Africa, Afghanistan and throughout South East Asia to support efforts to ensure the treatment of detainees and conditions of detention are improved in line with international standards.

Terry holds a Master of Arts in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University (RRU) with a focus on rule of law and post-conflict correctional reform, Master of Advanced Studies in International Law in Armed Conflict from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Trinity Western University. Terry has published work in both the South African Journal of Criminology (2015) and the ICPA Journal Advancing Corrections (2017). Prior to joining the ICRC he was the lead consultant for the development of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Nelson Mandala Rules eLearning course.

Benjamin Njoga

Deputy Commissioner General of Prisons, Kenya Prisons Service

Benjamin Njoga joined the Kenya Prisons Service (KPS) in 1983, since when he has served in various capacities including Duty Officer, Officer in Charge and Regional Commander of Prisons, rising to become Deputy Commissioner General. Holding Diplomas in Criminology and Social Order as well as Diplomacy and International Studies, he also recently spent several years heading the KPS Directorate of Legal Affairs, Human Rights, Research and Statistics.

Josh Ounsted

Thematic Leader, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden

Josh is Thematic Leader, 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.

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