Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Action, in general, aims to address important prison and police issues, especially the ones recorded in the CPT reports. Furthermore, it will provide support to the BiH authorities in ensuring compliance with the Council of Europe standards as necessary and assist them in advancing further towards the process of stabilisation and European integration. Specifically, the Action directly aspires to strengthen the capacities of staff to deal with persons deprived of liberty without infringing their human rights, design and provide meaningful activities for persons deprived of liberty, ensure that access to primary health care in prisons is equal to that provided in the community and support the treatment of mentally incapacitated offenders based on human rights standards.

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Back Final phase of the development of the offenders’ rehabilitation programmes in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The working group comprising local prison professionals tasked with developing offenders’ management programmes and a corresponding handbook to support their delivery to peers met on 17-19 May in Bihac under the auspices of the Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey project implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina as “Enhancing human rights protection for detained and sentenced persons”.

The Group opted for a comprehensive manual on how to plan regime for various categories of prisoners that contains not only detailed instructions on how to organise a set purposeful activities but also rehabilitation programmes designed to address specific needs of prisoners (for example anger management, substance abuse, repetitive offenders, etc).

The Handbook will be discussed at the forthcoming Action’s Steering Committee meeting with a view to its smooth and swift endorsement. The accompanying training programme was designed in parallel with the Handbook and it will be delivered in the later phase of the project.

Bihac 17-19 May