On Thursday, September 29, 2022, the Maas youth panel organized the fourth NOW TALKS in collaboration with SPACE010 and Music Matters. The young people shine...
This booklet addresses going from Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) to Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) when implementing a small-scale, differentiated and community-integrated detention house....
Last week, the Dutch newspaper NRC[1] headlined “Five small juvenile prisons started as an experiment and are now virtually empty”. As a result of all...
Katrine Antonsen & Fabian Wahl Sandvold
12 September 2022
RESCALED principles practiced in existing Norwegian prisons Norway is a long and narrow country situated north in Europe, and has a relatively low population density....
Graduated with a Master’s degree in International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law (IHRL), my first encounter with prisons’ issues were mostly through a...
Belgium continues to build large-scale prisons that are based on a 19th century model. These new prisons are larger than ever. While Belgium used to...
Izco Rincón, M., Pintelon, M. & Vanhouche, A.
18 August 2021
When a judge imposes a prison sentence, it has far-reaching consequences for the convicted person, for his or her family and the children involved. The...
All people have the right to education. This human right is also enshrined in international human rights instruments for incarcerated people (see for example the...
Sonja Snacken, Professor of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
23 March 2021
Prisons are highly potent but highly damaging institutions, both symbolically and in their real effects. Prisons are especially potent in “producing prisoners”, that means persons...
On Thursday, September 29, 2022, the Maas youth panel organized the fourth NOW TALKS in collaboration with SPACE010 and Music Matters. The young people shine...
This booklet addresses going from Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) to Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) when implementing a small-scale, differentiated and community-integrated detention house....
Last week, the Dutch newspaper NRC[1] headlined “Five small juvenile prisons started as an experiment and are now virtually empty”. As a result of all...
Katrine Antonsen & Fabian Wahl Sandvold
12 September 2022
RESCALED principles practiced in existing Norwegian prisons Norway is a long and narrow country situated north in Europe, and has a relatively low population density....
Graduated with a Master’s degree in International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law (IHRL), my first encounter with prisons’ issues were mostly through a...
Belgium continues to build large-scale prisons that are based on a 19th century model. These new prisons are larger than ever. While Belgium used to...
Izco Rincón, M., Pintelon, M. & Vanhouche, A.
18 August 2021
When a judge imposes a prison sentence, it has far-reaching consequences for the convicted person, for his or her family and the children involved. The...
All people have the right to education. This human right is also enshrined in international human rights instruments for incarcerated people (see for example the...
Sonja Snacken, Professor of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
23 March 2021
Prisons are highly potent but highly damaging institutions, both symbolically and in their real effects. Prisons are especially potent in “producing prisoners”, that means persons...
