IPIC2024-PID070 by Enes Sedić, Hubert Unger, Eric Besson, Lee Edney and Marayca Lopez

Aligning Prison Design With Technology Integration

Authors

Enes Sedić

Senior Advisor, Ministry of Justice and Public Administration, Coatia

Enes Sedić built a career within the Croatian Ministry of Justice and Public Administration, from an Expert Associate to a Senior Advisor-Specialist, reflecting a deep commitment to public service and public affairs. His professional experience covers a broad range of social and public policies in the justice system – i.e. project management in the judiciary at both the national and EU level, the EU integration process and its impact on the judicial system, the relationship between the judiciary and the fundamental rights, and justice sector reform.
Currently, he serves in the Directorate for the Prison System and Probation – tasked with leading, coordinating, and implementing energy renewal projects for existing prisons and penitentiaries and the development/programming of new prison facilities across Croatia. Sedić worked on implementing a unique IT system for the prison administration and probation (ZPIS) in the project manager role, reflecting his professional commitment to enhancing efficiency through technology. He is a member of the EuroPris Real Estate Expert Group.

Mr. Hubert Unger

Senior ICT Manager, Austrian Prison Service

Hubert Unger started back in 1988 as an IT supervisor in a prison in Graz. In 1999, he became member in the development team for the Austrian “OMS” the “IVV”. In 2000, he became the head of the Austrian IT Administration and the IT support centre. From 2010 until 2015, he was also responsible for the Austrian Electronic Monitoring program. From 2014 until now, he is a member of the EuroPris ICT Expert group. In 2015, he moved as an ICT Expert in to the Austrian Ministry of Justice, responsible for coordination and managing ICT and research projects.

Eric Besson

Head of Real Estate Office, French Ministry of Justice - Prison Administration Directorate, France

Eris Besson is an architect and have worked for thirteen years at the French Ministry of Justice, in the prison administration, with a thirty five-year career in the public real estate sector. The office for which he is responsible in manages the real estate budget, proposes and deploys the investment strategy (current plan of 15 000 extra places of detention, by 2027, with main objective of 80% of individual cells. Eric also participates in the maintenance policy, writes the programming standards and ensures that sustainable development is taken into account in real estate actions.

Mr Lee Edney

Head of PMO, UK Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom

Lee Edney is Head of the PMO for the Prison Expansion programmes at the Ministry of Justice.

He has worked in senior positions in the private and public sector, successfully delivering expansions to the UK education estate before working on prisons. Lee is adept at enabling large scale programmes to deliver, ensuring that the right information reaches the right people at the right times, and is passionate about developing new talent and enabling innovation.

Lee is excited about the role that technology can play in improving the sustainability of future projects, and represents the UK Ministry of Justice in Europris as a Real Estate expert.

Marayca Lopez

Criminologist/ Justice Planner, DLR Group, United States

Marayca is an expert consultant of distinguished ability and accomplishment in the field of criminal justice with an extensive education and international background in penology and criminology. Having exclusively dedicated her academic and professional careers to the justice sector, she possesses a keen understanding of the overall criminal justice system.

Her body of work is international in scope. She has participated in a wide array of criminal justice reform projects and prison studies, both domestically in the USA and abroad (e.g., Australia, Canada, Europe, Central and South America), resulting in worldwide expertise and a deep understanding of correctional best practices, prison operations, and innovative models for offender management and intervention.

In her current role as a Justice and Civic Sector Planning Leader for DLR Group she is responsible for planning and programming multiple correctional facilities that are holistic in their approach, preserve human rights, promote rehabilitation, healing, and treatment, are safe and humane, and focused on innovative operational and programmatic models for positive behavioral change and successful re-entry.

Whether as volunteer, collaborator, or lobbyist, she is actively involved with different international organizations that share the common goal of advancing the field of criminal justice and improving conditions of confinement for individuals deprived of liberty. She has an on-going collaboration with the UN Friends of Corrections and Penal Reform International (PRI) on issues related to the humanization of prisons, monitoring of detention practices, and improvement of incarceration conditions.

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