Global Prison Trends - Well-being Under Pressure

ICPA 2025 Presentation by Olivia Rope and Jerome Mangelinckx (PID141)

Authors

Olivia Rope

Executive Director, Penal Reform International, The Netherlands

Olivia Rope was appointed as Executive Director of Penal Reform International in 2020, having joined the organisation in 2012 and previously leading on policy and international advocacy. She is an expert on a range of human rights and criminal justice issues, having authored key publications and training materials for PRI and worked extensively with UN and other institutional actors and partners. Previously, Olivia worked at Amnesty International. She completed her LLM in International and European Human Rights Law at the University of Amsterdam in 2008 and was admitted to the High Court of New Zealand as a Barrister and Solicitor in 2009.

Jerome Mangelinckx

Global Policy Manager, Penal Reform International, Georgia

Jérôme is Global Policy Manager at PRI. He draws on extensive experience in drug policy reform, penal and penitentiary reform, and human rights, having played a key role as a co-founder of the Research Centre on Drugs and Human Rights (CIDDH), a Peruvian NGO dedicated to safeguarding the human rights of those most vulnerable to the impacts of the war on drugs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Among other responsibilities, he coordinated CIDDH’s Legal Clinic and developed a training guide for public defenders to improve legal aid to women imprisoned for drug offences in Peru. Jérôme holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Catholic University of Murcia in Spain, and a Graduate Certificate in Community Health and HIV from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

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