Uncategorised – Safesoc https://www.safesoc.co.uk Prison Regulation for Safer Societies: Participatory, Effective, Efficient Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:34:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 Penal Reform International online workshop for detention monitors https://www.safesoc.co.uk/penal-reform-international-online-workshop-for-detention-monitors/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:32:50 +0000 https://www.safesoc.co.uk/?p=1586 Continue reading "Penal Reform International online workshop for detention monitors"]]> As part of our collaborative work, Prison Reform International (PRI) are holding an online workshop for monitors ‘Deaths in prison’, targeting members of National Preventive MechanismsPresentations will be given by Professor Philippa Tomczak, members of the prisonDEATH initiative and Morris Tidball-Binz (United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions).  A discussion will also be held with a group of NPM members and staff, led by PRI.  To view the agenda click here .  Following this workshop, a short guidance note will be issued by PRI drawing on the presentations and discussions, circulated among all detention monitors through PRI’s network.  PRI will also participate in the 14th Plenary meeting of the Council for Penological Co-operation (see above article).

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Secretariat of Council of Europe invites Professor Tomczak as Scientific Expert https://www.safesoc.co.uk/secretariat-of-council-of-europe-invites-professor-tomczak-as-scientific-expert/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:28:55 +0000 https://www.safesoc.co.uk/?p=1580 Continue reading "Secretariat of Council of Europe invites Professor Tomczak as Scientific Expert"]]> Professor Philippa Tomczak has been formally invited by the Secretariat of the Council of Europe as a Scientific Expert to attend in person the 14th Plenary meeting of the Council for Penological Co-operation (PC-CP) on 5th-7th November 2024 in Strasbourg, France.  She will present key findings from her academic and impact work on prisoner death statistics and investigations.  This work is published in eight peer reviewed articles and two policy briefs.  The Council of Europe is an important international standard setting organisation and its expert Council for Penological Co-operation regularly reviews and revises international standards relating to imprisonment.  The draft agenda can be found here https://www.coe.int/en/web/prison/home

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