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Rights and wrongs of prison labour laws explored in new ICPR briefing
ICPR’s new briefing paper, “Labouring Behind Bars”, explores work in prison through the lens of international human rights law. This is the first of a series of publications in the project ‘Unlocking potential: towards effective, sustainable, and ethical provision of work opportunities for prisoners and prison leavers’.
Catherine Heard addresses United Nations high level event on incarceration
I was invited to speak about female imprisonment trends at an event at the UN’s headquarters in Geneva, which took ...
A new weapon against laws punishing poverty and status
Catherine Heard discusses the 8 March Principles for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use, HIV, Homelessness and Poverty, noting their potential to reduce the disproportionately harmful impacts of imprisonment on marginalized and stigmatized communities
New publication ‘Procedural Justice and the Courts’, part of the Clinks Evidence Library
In this review Dr Amy Kirby and Professor Jessica Jacobson from the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck, University of London, examine ‘procedural justice’ in the courts.