Paving the Way to Rehabilitation by Using Technologies in the Fight Against Drug Dealing and Drug Abuse in Prisons (PID039)

2.55pm – 3.30pm EDT, 23 April 2024 ‐ 35 mins

Room: Meeting Room 8

Parallel Workshop Session

This presentation describes the use of technologies to create a prison environment that enables rehabilitation. DJI is building an integrated approach that entails drug detection technologies and knowledge building measures that take into account market developments and new types of drugs.

Moderator

Jan-Erik Sandlie

Deputy Director General, The Directorate of the Norwegian Correctional Service, Norway

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Speakers

Dr Ramona Apostol

Coordinator innovation program on security and organised crime, Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, Netherlands

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Jan-Erik Sandlie

Deputy Director General, The Directorate of the Norwegian Correctional Service, Norway

Jan-Erik Sandlie is Deputy Director General in the Directorate of Norwegian Correctional Service and second in command. The Directorate was established in 2013.
Mr. Sandlie has worked within the Correctional Service since his graduation as a lawyer in 1989. He has through his career held different positions in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, Department of Correctional Service, ranging from Executive Officer and Adviser to Deputy Director General. He has also been project manager for some major and key developing projects in the Norwegian Correctional Service: the planning of Halden prison, the reduction of the waiting list (“prison queue”), implementing Electronic Monitoring and Implementation of the White paper “Punishment that works”. From 2001 – 2007 he was Deputy Regional Director in Correctional Service, Region East and in 2013 Regional Director of the same region. Mr. Sandlie is the co-author of several books about Norwegian Correctional Service.

Dr Ramona Apostol

Coordinator innovation program on security and organised crime, Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, Netherlands

Dr. Ramona Apostol is the coordinator of the innovation program on security and organised crime at the Custodial Institutions Agency of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. In this role, she is coordinating the prioritisation and subsequent execution of innovation projects which contribute to her organisation’s objectives on the topics of security and organised crime. Previously, Ramona has advised and coordinated numerous procurements of innovation, performed by European and international consortia of public authorities. Between 2014-2020 she has contributed to the European Assistance For Innovation Procurement (eafip) initative of the European Commission as co-author of the Eafip Toolkit and adviser to the selected procurements of innovation selected from several European countries. Ramona holds a doctoral degree from Leiden University on the topic of public procurement of innovation. As Honorary Research Fellow at Maastricht School of Management, she has conducted between 2017-2019 research and has lectured on various topics related to the legal and policy framework to public procurement of innovation.