Watch the video: Coronavirus in prisons: What's happening across Europe?
Watch the video of yesterday's webinar, 'Coronavirus in prisons: What's happening across Europe?'
Watch the video of yesterday's webinar, 'Coronavirus in prisons: What's happening across Europe?'
The European Parliament has cited European Prison Observatory research in a briefing on prison conditions in member states.
The European Prison Observatory is an ongoing, pan-European project funded by the European Union of which the Centre is partner.
Further information on the project can be found here.
Under the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention against Torture, National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) are set up to inspect and report on conditions in all places of detention.
The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture provides for the establishment of National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) with powers to visit places of detention and to report to the authorities.
An article in today's Guardian about the use of segregation in UK prisons draws on the Centre's work as part of the European Prison...
This month we launched a new report calling for better prison standards, as part of our contribution to the European Prison Observatory. The Observatory...
Our event this afternoon on human rights in prison across the UK and the rest of Europe drew an enthusiastic and engaged audience of researchers, policy makers, activists and practitioners.
Marie Crétenot, of the Observatoire international des prisons in Paris spoke about her recent...
For two years to December 2014 the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies was the United Kingdom partner on a pan-European project: the European Prison Observatory.
Votes for prisoners, a ban on strip searches and solitary confinement, and regular private family visits are just three of the recommendations in a new report aimed at improving prison standards across the European Union. The report, ...
In a previous comment piece, I wrote about what took place at the...
On 27 June the Centre held an event at HMP Grendon to discuss the conditions in prisons across the UK and Europe, and what can be done to improve them.
The event was organised by the...