The 27th Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services “Prisons and Probation: Sharing and Refocusing Knowledge and Practice” was held at the Barcelo Hotel, in Sevilla (Spain) on 21-22 June 2022. It was co-organised with the Spanish Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions.
The Conference was organised in plenary sessions and in workshops and the topics related to the selection and management of staff, to prison design and architecture, to equal access to services for women and to dealing with mental health. Under the different topics the use of AI was also considered. The data collected for the 2021 edition of the Annual Council of Europe Penal Statistics SPACE II were presented and in addition the interpretation and the use by the Directors of SPACE data related to prisons and probation were considered.
The Conference was opened only to invited participants: Directors of the Prison and Probation Services of the Council of Europe member and observer States as well as representatives of the European Union, the United Nations, the European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services (EuroPris), the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) and the Confederation of European Probation (CEP).
The Conference is opened only to invited participants: Directors of the Prison and Probation Services of the Council of Europe member and observer States as well as representatives of the European Union, the United Nations, the European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services (EuroPris), the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) and the Confederation of European Probation (CEP).
There was no possibility for on-line participation in the Conference.
Documents
- Programme
- Practical Information
- Curriculum Vitae of the Speakers and Moderators (bilingual)
- List of Participants
Family photo
Presentations
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Opening addresses
- Fernando Grande‑Marlaska, Minister of the Interior (Spain) ‑ Recorded video in Spanish
- Ángel Luis Órtiz González, General Secretary of Penitentiary Institutions (Spain) - in Spanish
- Jan Kleijssen, Director, Information Society ‑ Action against Crime Directorate, Council of Europe
Keynote speech
Parallel Workshops:
WORKSHOP I: Planning the future today: prison design and infrastructure
Moderators: Manfred Kost (Germany) & Willem van der Brugge, Secretary General (CEP)
Panelists:
- Pia Puolakka, Project Manager, Smart Prison Project, Criminal Sanctions Agency (Finland)
- Ils Milis, Head of Department, Strategic Support Directorate, Prison Service (Belgium)
- José Ramón Sánchez Quintana, Head of the Technical Unit (Spain)
WORKSHOP II: SPACE I and II for 2021: interpreting and using the data
Moderators: Fernando Miró-Llinares (Spain) & Gustav Tallving (EuroPris)
Panelist:
Marcelo Aebi, Professor, School of Criminal Sciences, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
WORKSHOP III: Working better together for offender reintegration
Moderators: Vivian Geiran (Ireland) & Dominik Lehner (Switzerland)
Panelists:
- Mary Corcoran, Professor of Criminology, Keele University (Ireland)
- Robert Josten, Ministry of Justice and Security (Netherlands)
- Carlos Fernández Gómez, Governor of open prison in Murcia (Spain)
WORKSHOP IV: Ensuring equity and equality of access for women to services in prisons and probation
Moderators: Maria Lindström (Sweden) & Laura Negredo López (Spain)
Panelists:
- Lucy Baldwin, Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University (United Kingdom)
- Olivia Rope, Executive Director, Penal Reform International
- Máximo Martínez Bernal, Head the Inspection Department (Spain)
WORKSHOP V: Dealing with mental health issues in prisons and probation services
Moderators: Ilina Taneva (Council of Europe) & Paulina Tallroth (Finland)
Panelists:
- Jorge Monteiro, Head of Service, Directorate‑General of Reintegration and Prison Services (Portugal)
- Ronald Gramigna, Head of the Unit for Execution of Sentences and Measures, Federal Office of Justice (Switzerland)
- Maria Puerto Solar Calvo, Advisor to the General Secretary (Spain)
WORKSHOP VI: Staff recruitment and management
Moderators: Håkan Klarin (Sweden) & Annie Devos (Belgium)
Panelists:
- Susanne Gerlach, Director General of Prison and Probation Adminstration of Berlin (Germany)
- Sébastien Cauwel, Director of Enap (France) - in French
- Francesca Melis Pont, Psychologist, General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions (Spain)
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION
CHAIR: Carlo Chiaromonte, Head of Criminal Law and Counter-terrorism, Council of Europe
Summing up of the workshops and some ideas for the future
Closing address:
- Alan Mitchell, President of the CPT
- Ángel Luis Órtiz González, General Secretary of Penitentiary Institutions (Spain) - in Spanish