📢 Global Prison Trends 2025 – Executive Summary in 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡. The 2025 edition in collaboration with
Thailand Institute of Justice provides data-driven insights into developments shaping justice systems worldwide.

🔗https://penalreform.org/resource/global-prison-trends-2025/

📢 On the #InternationalDayOfNonViolence we highlight a milestone for women’s rights in prison: the #BangkokRules.

🔴Learn more in our report with Women Beyond Walls
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🔗 penalreform.org/resource/fro...
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#HumanRights #Justice

📢 Join us on 19 Sept for a hybrid discussion on lived experience in #PrisonReform, co-organised by PRI, AmsterdamLawHub, and Bureau Clara Wichmann.

🔹 Keynote: Dr Dwayne Antojado

🔹 Discussion & Q&A
👉 Register: penalreform.org/news/lived-e...

#JusticeReform #HumanRights

This #InternationalYouthDay, access our free course to help professionals prevent harm & build accountability in youth detention.
▶️ focus.more-dev.co.uk/login/index....
📜 Certificate on completion.
#ChildRights #HumanRights

In this expert blog for PRI, researcher and advocate Dwayne Antojado shares how lived experience can reshape policy, research and justice systems from the inside.

🔗https://penalreform.org/blog/placing-lived-experience-at-the-heart-of-systemic/

#LivedExperience #CriminalJustice

👉New on PRI’s blog: Sofie Arjon Schütte explores how #corruption takes shape in #prison systems, often driven by overcrowding, lack of oversight and systemic vulnerabilities.

🔗 www.penalreform.org/blog/behind-...

#PrisonGovernance #overcrowding

🔷 In #Qatar, a series of workshops launched to strengthen the treatment of people in #prison in line with international standards. The trainings reached 90+ staff & focused on rights-based, gender-sensitive management.
🔗https://www.penalreform.org/news/workshops-qatar/
#HumanRights #MandelaRules

📢 Our Annual Report 2024 is now available!
The 2024 report reflects PRI’s global work to promote fair, humane and effective #criminaljustice systems across the globe. 🔴A huge thank you to all our generous donors for supporting #HumanRights change.

🔗 www.penalreform.org/resource/ann...

📢 New e-learning course!🔸 Practical, rights-based training for justice & child protection actors 📄 Self-paced | 🎓 Certificate on completion

👉https://justicewithchildren.org/en/learning/data-mosaic-e-learning-violence-against-children-detention #ChildRights #DataMOSAIC @tdhfoundation.bsky.social

New blog! 🔴PRI’s Executive Director, Olivia Rope, reflects on five barriers to reforming #prison systems globally, from underused alternatives to the politics of punishment.

📍Marking 10 yrs of the #MandelaRules at the #UNGA

🔗 www.penalreform.org/blog/second-...

#PrisonReform #HumanRights

🔴 Virtual hearings riskσ undermining children’s rights in justice systems.

As part of #PPROChild, we’re researching key risks—like misread cues, isolation & limited understanding—to help build child-centred digital justice systems.

#ChildJustice #DigitalRights
@tdhfoundation.bsky.social

🖋️New on PRI’s blog: How is hope lived inside #prison by #olderpeople serving #lifesentences?

Dr @marionvannier.bsky.social & Dr @helengair.bsky.social reflect on dignity, despair & the ethics of hope in new expert blog.

🔗 penalreform.org/blog/carcera...

#humanrights

🌍 It’s a wrap! The V Congress on Justice with Children has just concluded in Madrid yesterday — and what a powerful global moment it was.

This is just the beginning.
Thank you to all of our partners in this venture!

#JusticeWithChildren #JWC2025 #ChildRights

🙌 The V #JWC2025 is officially happening in Madrid! Over 750 participants joined us in-person — with thousands more online — to explore this year’s theme: Advancing Child-Centred Justice: Preventing and Responding to Violence Affecting Children in Child Justice Systems. #CHILDRIGHTS #HUMANRIGHTS

📢 #GlobalPrisonTrends 2025 is out now!

From #voting rights to #violence, tech & the climate impact of #prisons, the report captures key global justice trends, including lived experience as a driver of reform.

By PRI and the Thailand Institute of Justice.

🔗 www.penalreform.org/resource/glo...

Now live: the Data MOSAIC Tool — a practical resource for detention facilities to monitor #violence against #children.

📊 Incident-based reporting
📍 Pattern analysis
🧭 Rights-based guidance
💶Funded by the EU

🔗 justicewithchildren.org/en/news/data...

#ChildJustice #VAC #datamosaic

📢 New blog from PRI and
EuroPris - The European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services.

#Violence in European prisons is escalating—driven by #overcrowding, understaffing & structural barriers.

🔎Read how better data, staff training & independent monitoring can help: t.ly/nlkOx

🚨 Don't forget to register for the 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 co-organised by PRI and @tdhfoundation.bsky.social, as part of the Global Initiative on Justice With Children.

🗓️ Register now: t.ly/_BJpL

#JusticeWithChildren2025 #ChildJustice #GlobalCongress #JWC2025

📢 New guide: Green prisons 🌿

Our latest guide with UNICRI explores practical, cost-effective strategies for eco-friendly #prison management.

📖 Read more & download here: penalreform.org/resource/gre...

#GreenPrisons #Sustainability #SDGs

🟢Can prisons be part of the sustainability movement?

Tomorrow, 26 March, PRI & UNICRI will launch Green prisons: A Guide to creating environmentally sustainable #prisons —showcasing how sustainability can enhance #rehabilitation & uphold #humanrights.

🔗Register: penalreform.org/news/22857/