COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONVENTIONS

• European Convention on Human Rights - (Other languages)
• European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment CPT - (Other languages)
• Compendium of legal instruments relating to Prisons and Community Sanctions and Measures (March 2019) - (FR)
• European Convention on the Supervision of Conditionally Sentenced or Conditionally Released Offenders (1964) (DE) - (FR) - (RU) - (UKR)
• Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1983) (DE) - (IT) - (RU)
  • Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1987) (DE) - (RU)

COUNCIL OF EUROPE GUIDELINES AND RELEVANT RESOURCES

• Guidelines for prison and probation services regarding radicalisation and violent extremism - (LVA)
• Guidelines regarding recruitment, selection, education, training and professional development of prison and probation staff (October 2019) - (FR) - (BiH) - (LVA)
• CPT standards
• CPT HUDOC Database

EUROPEAN UNION RESOURCES

• European Union (2008), Council Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments and probation decisions with a view to the supervision of probation measures and alternative sanctions
• European Union (2008), Council Framework Decision 2008/909 JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the European Union
• European Union (2009), Council Framework Decision 2009/829/JHA of 23 October 2009 on the application, between Member States of the European Union, of the principle of mutual recognition to decisions on supervision measures as an alternative to provisional detention
• European Union (2012), Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime
• European Commission (2022), Recommendation on the procedural rights of suspects and accused persons subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions

INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

• EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction)
• United Nations - MANDELA Rules
• United Nations -  Office on drugs and crime: Handbook on prisoners special needs
• United Nations - Istanbul Protocol
• United Nations - Committee against Torture
• United Nations OHCHR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• World Medical Association - Declaration of Edinburgh on Prison Conditions and the Spread of Tuberculosis and Other Communicable Diseases (2000, rev. 2011)
• World Medical Association - Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikers 1991 (rev. 1992 and 2006)

RECOMMENDATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS

• Revised Recommendation R (2006) 2-REV on the European Prison Rules - (FR) - (DE) - (FIN) - (TÜR)

• Recommendation CM/Rec(2024)5 on ethical and organisational aspects of the use of Artificial Intelligence and related digital technologies by prison and probation services - (FR) - (BOS/CRO/SER)
• Recommentation CM/AS(2023)Rec2242-final on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on prison population in Europe - (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)9 on the protection of witnesses and collaborators of justice - (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)7 on the risk assessment of individuals indicted or convicted for terrorist offences - (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2021)6 regarding the assessment, management and reintegration of persons accused or convicted of a sexual offence - (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)8 concerning restorative justice in criminal matters - (BiH) - (FR) - (IT) - (LV)
  • Commentary to the Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)8 - (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)5 concerning children with imprisoned parents - (CRO) - (DE) - (ES) - (FR) - (FIN) - (HU) - (LT) - (LV) - 
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)21 on Radicalisation and violent Extremism in prisons - (FR) - (DE) - (LV)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)3 on community sanctions and measures replacing the text of Recommendation Rec(2000)22 on improving the implementation of the European rules on community sanctions and measures - (FR) - (IT)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)4 concerning electronic monitoring  - (ARM) - (FR) - (IT) - (RO) - (TUR) - (UKR)
  • Commentary to Recommendation CM/Rec (2014)4 (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)3 concerning dangerous offenders - (ALB) - (BiH) - (FR) - (IT) - (SP)
  • Commentary to Recommendation CM/Rec (2014)3 (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)12 concerning foreign prisoners - (ALB) - (DE) - (FR) - (IT)
  • Commentary to Recommendation CM/Rec (2012)12 - (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)5 on the European Code of Ethics for Prison Staff - (ALB) - (FR) - (DE)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)1 on the Council of Europe Probation Rules - (AZ) - (FR) - (DE) - (GEO) - (MD) - (RO) - (UKR)
  • Commentary to Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)1 - (FR)
• Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)11 on European Rules for juvenile offenders subject to sanctions or measures (ALB) - (FR) - (LT) - (RU)
  • Commentary to Recommendation n° Rec(2008)11 - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (2006) 13 on the use of remand in custody, the conditions in which it takes place and the provision of safeguards against abuse - (ALB) - (DE) - (FR) - (GEO) - (RO) - (RU) - (UKR)
• Rec. R (2006) 2 on the European Prison Rules - (ALB) - (ARM) - (BIH) - (CRO) - (CZ) - (DK) - (EST) - (FR) - (GEO) - (DE) - (HU) - (IT) - (LV) - (LT) - (NO) - (PL) - (PO) - (RO) - (RU) - (SRB) - (SK) - (SI) - (ES) - (SE) - (UKR)
  • Commentary to Recommendation Rec. R (2006) 2 (FR)
• Rec. R (2003) 23 on the management of life-sentence and other long-term prisoners - (ALB) - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (2003) 22 concerning conditional release - (ARM) - (DE) - (FR) - (GEO) - (RO) - (RU) - (UKR)
• Rec. R (2003) 21 concerning partnership in crime prevention - (FR)
• Rec. R (2003) 20 concerning new ways of dealing with juvenile delinquency and the role of juvenile justice - (ALB) - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (2001) 10 on the European Code of Police Ethics - (DE) - (FR) - (NO) - (UKR)
• Rec. R (2000) 22 on improving the implementation of the European rules on community sanctions and measures - (DE) - (FR) - (RO) - (UKR)
• Rec. R (2000) 20 on the role of early psychosocial intervention in the prevention of criminality - (ALB) - (FR)
• Rec. R (99) 22 concerning prison overcrowding and prison population inflation - (ALB) - (DE) - (FR) - (GEO) - (RO) - (RU)
• Rec. R (99) 19 concerning mediation in penal matters - (ALB) - (ARM) - (FR) - (GEO) - (RO) - (UKR)
• Rec. R (98) 7 concerning the ethical and organisational aspects of health care in prison - (ALB) - (FR)
• Rec. R (97) 12 on staff concerned with the implementation of sanctions and measures - (ALB) - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (93) 6 concerning prison and criminological aspects of the control of transmissible diseases including aids and related health problems in prison  - (ALB) - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (92) 18 concerning the practical application of the Convention on the transfer of sentenced persons - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (92) 17 concerning consistency in sentencing - (FR)
• Rec. R (92) 16 on the European rules on community sanctions and measures - (DE) - (FR) - (GEO) - (RO)
• Rec. R (89) 12 on education in prison - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (88) 13 concerning the practical application of the Convention on the transfer of sentenced persons - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (87) 3 on the European prison rules (replaced by Rec(2006)2) - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (84) 12 concerning foreign prisoners - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (84) 11 concerning information about the Convention on the transfer of sentenced persons - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (82) 17 on the custody and treatment of dangerous prisoners - (BiH) - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (82) 16 on prison leave - (DE) - (FR)
• Rec. R (80) 11 concerning custody pending trial (Replaced by Rec(2006)13) - (DE) - (FR) - (ROM)
• Rec. R (79) 14 concerning the application of the European Convention on the supervision of conditionally sentenced or conditionally released offenders - (FR)

• RES (70) 1 Pratical organisation of measures for the Supervision of Conditionally Sentenced or Conditionally Released Offenders - (FR)
• RES (67) 5 on Research on prisoners considered from the individual angle, and on prison community - (DE) - (FR)
• RES (62) 2 on Electoral, civil and social rights of prisoners - (DE) - (FR)

WHITE PAPER

• Council of Europe White paper CM(2023)3-add regarding the management of persons with mental health disorders by the prisons and probation services (FR)