11 September 2024, Singapore
Our Former PC-CP Chair, Ms Nadya Radkovska (Bulgaria), was elected as ICPA Board Member during their Annual Conference 2024, which was held in Singapore from 1 to 6 September 2024, Congratulations to Nadya! Please see the ICPA Article.
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2 September 2024, Singapore
The ICPA Annual Conference 2024 has officially begun, bringing together over 800 professionals across 5 days of inspiring discussions on "Enabling Desistance: Beyond Recidivism". We were honored to have Peter Severin, ICPA President, and Natalie Boal, ICPA Executive Director, deliver opening...
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24 June 2024
Strasbourg, Council of Europe
Directors of European prison and probation services from the 46 Council of Europe’s member states are meeting in Sofia on 24 and 25 June to discuss ways to improve the autonomy and resocialisation of prisoners and combat organised crime groups in the prison and probation contexts, among other...
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27 June 2024
Strasbourg, Council of Europe
The overall number of persons subject to sanctions and measures which keep offenders in the community remained stable in Europe from January 2022 to January 2023, although some probation administrations experienced significant increases or decreases, according to the Council of Europe Annual...
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6 June 2024
Strasbourg, Council of Europe
Prison overcrowding continues to be an acute and persistent problem in a significant number of European prison administrations, according to the Council of Europe’s Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations (SPACE I) for 2023, released today (see also the Key findings). In countries with over...
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30 May 2024
Strasbourg, Council of Europe
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20-22 March 2024
Strasbourg, Council of Europe
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21 September 2023
Strasbourg
On the occasion of the 33rd meeting of the PC-CP Working Group, the members and participants visited the pre-trial detention centre in Strasbourg on 21 September 2023.
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SPACE
5 July 2022
Strasbourg
The number of persons in Europe subject to sanctions and measures which keep offenders in the community grew significantly from January 2021 to January 2022, consolidating the last decade’s general trend, in contrast with the decrease caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in the previous year. These...
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Council of Europe
6 June 2023
Strasbourg
The Council of Europe annual Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services, held in Berlin on 6 and 7 June, is exploring innovative responses to challenges such as the increasing number of people with mental health problems in prison or under the supervision of probation agencies,...
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6-7 June 2023
Berlin (Germany)
The 28th Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services (CDPPS) "Management of Prisons and Probation: New Challenges and Innovative Responses" was organised in Berlin (Germany) on 6 and 7 June 2023. The Conference was opened to invited participants only. All the...
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8 February 2023
Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Link to document CM(2023)3-add
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8 December 2022
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...
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20 May 2022
Strasbourg
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
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Council of Europe
5 April 2022
Strasbourg
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)....
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31 March 2022
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,...
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16 March 2022
Strasbourg
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....
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13 December 2021
Venice, Italy
“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...
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22-23 November 2021
Council of Europe, Strasbourg
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...
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