28th Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services (CDPPS)

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The 28th Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison and Probation Services "Management of Prisons and Probation: New Challenges and Innovative Responses" was held at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin (Germany) on 6 and 7 June 2023. It was co-organised with the German Federal Ministry of Justice. It was preceded on 5 June by the 12th Annual General Meeting of EuroPris.

The Conference was held in plenary sessions and in workshops. The six workshops dealt with medical care, including remote medical care; ways to decrease the penal response to offending; dealing with sex offenders and with genre based violence; dealing with drug addiction; social reintegration and the use of restorative justice.

The Conference was opened to invited participants only: 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.

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 Documents 

Presentations 

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

Opening addresses:

Keynote speech:

Presentation of the German system:

Prison and probation in Germany: The federal system and international comparison 

Treatment of offenders in prison with a closer look at the support for the family system:

WORKSHOP I: MEDICAL CARE IN PRISON AND PROBATION SERVICES

Remote Medical Care in the Penitentiary System of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg 

Forensic Aftercare: Mental ill offenders after conditional release and supervison as a security measure ("Führungsaufsicht") 

Monitoring in prisons by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), including as regards the provision of healthcare 

WORKSHOP II: THE ULTIMA RATIO PRINCIPLE OR HOW TO DECREASE THE PENAL RESPONSE TO OFFENDING

The new Act on Ambulant Reintegration of Offenders and on Victim Protection in Schleswig Holstein, Germany 

Shrinking the penal state: Principles, practices and priorities

Smart Sanctioning During Two Centuries of Dutch Probation

WORKSHOP III: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

Restorative Justice and Victim Orientation in Prisons: how to develop collaborative pathways for victim offender encounters  

Restorative Justice  - Whose responsibility is it?

Implementing restorative principles and practices in Finnish prisons 

WORKSHOP IV: PARTICULAR CHALLENGES IN DEALING WITH SEX OFFENDERS AND WITH GENDER BASED VIOLENCE 

Phoenix Project - Clearing procedures and measures for adult violent offenders (Germany) & Rubikon - Intensive measure for juvenile intensive offenders

Treatment of Gender Based Violence Offenders in Europe: practices, challenges and standards 

Applying the risk, need and responsivity model to the treatment of individuals convicted of sexual offending in Sweden

WORKSHOP V: DRUG USE BY PRISONERS AND PROBATIONERS  

Opioid substitution treatment during imprisonment: Results of an evaluation project in Bavaria 

Joint survey of all German Federal States: Substance misuse by prisoners (Berlin, Germany)

The Pompidou Group programme on criminal justice and health in prisons

Interventions addressing drug related problems in prison: models of care for the elimination of hepatitis in European prisons and barriers to the implementation 

WORKSHOP VI: SOCIAL REINTEGRATION   POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Europe’s largest open Penitentiary in Bielefeld

UNODCs Global Prison and Penal Reform Programmes - Member State Opportunities to participate

Model of interagency co operation in working with the Roma population 

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION

Summing up of the workshops and some ideas for the future

Closing addresses: 


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