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The 28th Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services (CDPPS) "Management of Prisons and Probation: New Challenges and Innovative Responses" will be organised in Berlin (Germany) this year, on 6 and 7 June. The Conference is opened to invited participants only. All the information about this event are available on the Conference webpage. This event will be preceded on 5 June by the 12th Annual General Meeting of EuroPris.
The 28th Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services (CDPPS) "Management of Prisons and Probation: New Challenges and Innovative Responses" will be organised in Berlin (Germany) this year, on 6 and 7 June. The Conference is opened to invited participants only. All...
Link to document CM(2023)3-add
Link to document CM(2023)3-add
On 8 December the European Commission adopted a Recommendation on the procedural rights of suspects and accused persons subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions, which lays down minimum standards and measures based on the Council of Europe recommendations and principles...
The Council for Penological Co-operation Working Group adopted a Follow-up Covid-19 related Statement at their 25th meeting in September 2020, which was approved during the PC-CP 10th Plenary Meeting on 13-14 October 2020. Link to the Covid-19 related Statement
The Covid-19 pandemic contributed to reducing the prison population in Europe between January 2020 and January 2021, consolidating a ten-year-long trend in most European states, according to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2021, (see also Key findings)....
Following the Committee of Ministers’ Resolution CM/Res(2022)2 of 16 March 2022, the Russian Federation ceased to be a member of the Council of Europe as from 16 March 2022. Resolution CM/Res(2022)3, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 23 March 2022, further specifies, among other things,...
In an extraordinary meeting this morning, the Committee of Ministers decided, in the context of the procedure launched under Article 8 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, that the Russian Federation ceases to be a member of the Council of Europe as from today, after 26 years of membership....
“Crime and Criminal Justice -The Role of Restorative Justice in Europe”: Justice Ministers’ conference in Venice “Crime and Criminal Justice -The Role of Restorative Justice in Europe” is the theme of the Conference of the Ministers of Justice organised by the Italian Presidency of the Committee...
The Council for Penological Co-operation (PC-CP) organised a Conference on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Committee and its 11th Plenary Meeting (Hybrid) in Strasbourg on 22 and 23 November 2021. Programme Conference 40th Anniversary of the PC-CP Agenda (Plenary Meeting) Order of...
On 20 October 2021 the Committee of Ministers at the 1415th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies, adopted Recommendation CM/Rec(2021)6 regarding the assessment, management and reintegration of persons accused or convicted of a sexual offence and took note of its Explanatory Memorandum. The...
The impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of offenders and staff and the enhanced use of new technologies leads the agenda of the annual Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services of Council of Europe member states, taking place in Funchal on the island of Madeira (Portugal) on 20...
The number of persons subject to sanctions and measures which keep offenders in the community and do not deprive them of liberty grew by 3% in Europe from 2019 to 2020, according to the 2020 SPACE II annual survey, carried out for the Council of Europe by the University of Lausanne. (Please see...
The overall European imprisonment rate- the number of persons in prison per 100,000 inhabitants - fell again slightly in 2020, consolidating a trend that started in 2013, according to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2020 (see also the Key findings). On 31...
Following the overall decrease of European prisons populations during the period of the lockdowns in spring, during the summer the incarceration rate remained stable in most European countries but started to grow in several prison administrations, according to a new study by the University of...
25th Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services (CDPPS)
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted a Recommendation which updates the 2006 European Prison Rules. The rules, which contain the key legal standards and principles related to prison management, staff and treatment of detainees and are a global reference in this field,...
European states are increasingly resorting to sanctions and measures which keep offenders in the community without deprivation of liberty, according to the 2019 SPACE II annual survey, carried out for the Council of Europe by the University of Lausanne. (Please see also the Key Findings) On 31...
The Council for Penological Co‑operation Working Group, in co‑operation with the European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services (EuroPris) and the Confederation of European Probation (CEP) wishes to draw the attention to some important texts issued by the Council of Europe in recent...
Secretary General Pejčinović Burić calls on states to resort to alternatives to deprivation of liberty and to protect both the prison population and prison staff. The overall imprisonment rate - the number of inmates per 100,000 inhabitants - remained stable in Europe from 2018 to 2019, according...
