On the frontline, preventing torture and ill-treatment: the CPT
Behind the scenes at the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the oldest European inspection mechanism.
Healthcare in prison: challenges and realities
How does good healthcare in prison help wider society? What kind of risks are there to health from being in detention? Why are prisoners less healthy than the general public? And what is the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture’s (CPT) role? CPT member Prof. Hans Wolff of...
Inside Europe’s immigration detention centres: the CPT’s fight to prevent abuse
How does the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) ensure the protection of those detained in immigration detention centres? In this podcast the CPT President Alan Mitchell and adviser Francesca Gordon explain the CPT’s work in this area.
35th anniversary of the Convention for the Prevention of Torture: the CPT releases a podcast on the challenges and realities of prisons in Europe
Overcrowding: “building prisons is not the solution” Prison overcrowding, a chronic systemic problem and a long-standing concern for the CPT, is getting worse in many European countries. Therese Rytter and Hugh Chetwynd report on 35 years of observations within European prisons, and stress the...
Preventing torture in Europe
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