Prison Links

International
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights
International Centre for Prison Studies
International Corrections and Prisons Associations
 
 
Regional Africa
African Commission on Human and People's Rights

America
Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Vera Institute of Justice

Asia
Asia Crime Prevention Foundation (ACPF)
Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators

Europe
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 
European Prison Education Association (EPEA)                          
Conference Permanente Europeene de la Probation (CEP)       
European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice
The AIRE Centre

Foreigners
EU ‘Foreign Prisoners’ study
EPAFRAS
European Group for Prisoners Abroad
Fundacion Espanoles en El Mundo
International Office of the Dutch Probation Service
Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas
Prisoners Abroad                                
 

 
Health
WHO Health in Prison Project
Institute for Criminal Justice Healthcare     
 
 
Juveniles
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)            
Council of Juvenile Correctional Administration
Center on Juveniles and Criminal Justice               
Committee for Children of Imprisoned Parents
Defence for Children International                        
UNICEF                   

Monitoring of Prisons

Dutch Independent Monitoring Commission
EuroMos
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales
Irish Independent Monitoring Commission
UK Independent Monitoring Boards                                                   
 
 
Penal Reform
Penal Reform International                                     
Prison Reform                                                        
International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy
 
 

Privatisation
Prison Privatisation Report International  
        

 
Religion
Prison Fellowship International (PFI)
International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral Care (ICCPPC)
International Prison Chaplains' Association (IPCA)
Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)
 
 
Torture
UN Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the question of Torture
Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT)
World Organisation Against Torture
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
United Nations Committee against Torture
United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
 
 
Crime & Justice International
UN Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN)  
UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)   
World Justice Information Network                                
World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems

Africa
UN African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFRI)                   
                                               
America's
United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention and Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD)
National Criminal Justice Reference Service                        

Asia
UN Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI)                                                                   
Europe
European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI)           
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)                  

 

 

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