Adapting Standards of Best Practice to Local Contexts Through Prison Oversight

ICPA2024 Presentation by Ivan Zinger, Andreea Lachsz, Rafael Barreto Souza (ICPA2024-PID086)

Authors

Dr Ivan Zinger

Correctional Investigator of Canada, Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada

Dr. Ivan Zinger received his degree in Common Law from the University of Ottawa in 1992, and completed his articles of clerkship at the Federal Court of Canada. In 1999, he obtained his Ph.D. at Carleton University (Ottawa) in Psychology of Criminal Conduct. He is a Research Adjunct Professor with the Law Department at Carleton University. Dr. Zinger joined the Public Service of Canada in 1996. He held a variety of senior managerial, policy and research positions in public safety-related federal departments and agencies. In 2004, he joined his current employer, the Office of the Correctional Investigator (Federal Prison Ombudsman), and since January 2009, he is the Executive Director and General Counsel for that Office. Over the years, Dr. Zinger developed expertise in domestic and international human rights law in prison settings. His academic publications are significant and include articles on a variety of subjects, including prison oversight, ethics, dangerous offenders, correctional treatment, the diagnosis of psychopathy, conditional release, and penal segregation. Dr. Zinger is the recipient of the 2014 APEX Partnership Award for “making communities safer by building strong and effective partnerships across the country and abroad, contributing to the development of more effective correctional practices in Canada.” This prestigious award is one of six presented annually by the Association of Professional Executives in the Public Service of Canada (APEX).

Andreea Lachsz

Quentin Bryce Law Doctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow,, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Andreea Lachsz works and lives on unceded Gadigal and Dharug Country in Australia. She is a Quentin Bryce Law Doctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, completing a PhD that focuses on torture and ill-treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody in the criminal legal system. She has worked for the Australian Capital Territory National Preventive Mechanism and has completed a Churchill Fellowship on culturally appropriate implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT). She was the inaugural Head of Policy, Communications and Strategy at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, and Coordinator of Community Legal Education, Training and Projects at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA). She has worked as a criminal defence solicitor at NAAJA and Victoria Legal Aid. Andreea has volunteered as a Humanitarian Observer with the Australian Red Cross Immigration Detention Monitoring Program, conducting visits to centres on Christmas Island and joint visits with ICRC to centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.

Rafael Barreto Souza

Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, UNODC, Philippines

Rafael Barreto Souza is a Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer based at UNODC in Manila, Philippines, where he focuses on prison reform. He has previously worked at UNDP Brazil on judicial reform and was a federal prison inspector with the Brazilian National Preventive Mechanism against Torture (NMP). His experience also includes the International Bar Association, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and civil society organizations. Rafael is part of the Network of Experts at the Omega Research Foundation, supporting initiatives related to the use of force and weapons standards. He also contributed to the drafting of the Méndez Principles for investigative interviewing. Rafael has taught Law at several universities in Brazil. He holds two master's degrees: one in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and another in Constitutional Law from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil.

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