CTC 2025 PID034 Ilina Taneva, Pia Puolakka, Håkan Klarin

European Standards on AI and the Nordic Smart Prisons

Authors

Ilina Taneva

Deputy Head of the Criminal Law Division, Council of Europe, France

Ilina Taneva is Deputy Head of the Criminal Law Division, Council of Europe. She is also Secretary to the Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services) as well as Secretary to the Council for Penological Co operation (PC CP). She joined the Council of Europe Secretariat in 1997 and since then has been Secretary to several intergovernmental committees which elaborated standards in the field of penal and penitentiary law, prisons, probation and aftercare, crime prevention and juvenile justice. The major achievements in this area are the European Prison Rules; The European Rules for juvenile offenders subject to sanctions or measures; The Council of Europe Probation Rules; The European Code of ethics for prison staff; The Guidelines for prison and probation services regarding radicalisation and violent extremism and The European Rules on community sanctions and measures. She has represented the Council of Europe as speaker at many international meetings, including meetings organised by the EU, UNODC, EuroPris, CEP, ICPA and GCTF.

Pia Puolakka

Senior Specialist, Team Leader, Prison and Probation Service of Finland

Ms Pia Puolakka has been working for the Criminal Sanctions Agency since 2012. She started as a prison psychologist. Since 2017 she has been working in the Central Administration. There, she first worked as a senior specialist responsible for rehabilitative services including programme work, family work, and psychological and spiritual services in prisons. In 2018 she was appointed as the project manager of the Smart Prison Project. Her current post includes developing digital services for rehabilitative purposes and leading the implementation of the smart prison system. In 2020 she started as the project manager of the RISE AI project that is developing artificial intelligence (AI) application for client work and counselling in the Criminal Sanctions Agency. In 2021 she also took the lead of the New Prison Hospital Project. By education she is a forensic psychologist and works also as a private psychotherapist. She has done further studies in Artificial Intelligence for the purposes of the current RISE AI project. She is especially interested in how digital means can contribute to people's well-being and abilities. She is a board member of the EuroPris ICT Expert Group.

Håkan Klarin

CIO, Swedish Prison and Probation Service

Mr Hakan Klarin is an experienced Chief Information Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Innovation Management, Business Development, Strategic Planning and Change Management. Holds an Executive MBA-degree and is specialized in managing global R&D and innovation within large scale organizations. Mr Hakan Klarin has during the period 2011 to 2017 had the position as CIO for Region Ostergotland, the fourth largest county council and healthcare provider in Sweden as well as several national assignments within the domain. Since 2017 Mr Hakan Klarin holds the position as CIO for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service and was the previous head of the Expert Group for ICT within Europris.

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