ICPA2023-PID084 - Adam Stapleton

Prison Audits to Reduce Overcrowding in Prisons in Africa

Author

Adam Stapleton

Director, The Governance and Justice Group, Portugal

Adam Stapleton is a Director of the Governance and Justice Group (GJG) (www.governancejustice.org). Formerly a barrister in criminal practice in London, he has been a Human Rights Officer on UN missions in Cambodia and Rwanda and between 1995-2007 was adviser to Penal Reform International based in Malawi. He has been visiting Professor of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago on two separate occasions and was a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at Essex University and senior justice adviser to the UK government’s Stabilisation Unit (now Office of Conflict, Security and Mediation – OCSM). In recent years, he has focused on the role of data to inform policy and reform programmes.

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