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MONITORING THE REFORM OF THE PRISON SYSTEM - 2014 |
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The main objective of this two-year project is to improve the
implementation of human rights within Serbia's prison system. As of
January 2012 the Helsinki Committee will be conducting total 14
fact-finding missions to prison institutions, holding 4 press
conferences and convening 2 professional conferences in tandem with
Ombudsman and OSCE Mission to Serbia, organizing 2 study tours for
prison managers and producing a review of achievements/setbacks in
2011-2013 in Serbian and English edition. Target groups: public
officials, legislators and institutional personnel. Expected
results: strongly sensitized public officials of their
responsibility for the fulfillment of human rights of prisoners,
increase leveraged on policy-makers to effectuate a systemic change
in medical care of prisoners, increased effectiveness of NPM and
institutional managers oriented toward EU practice.
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PRISON REFORM MONITORING IN 2014
December 25, 2014
In 2014 the Helsinki Committee continued
monitoring Serbia’s prison reform and scrutinizing the situation of
penal/prison institutions. The six-month project “Prison Reform
Monitoring Continues” was implemented with the assistance of Civil
Rights Defenders. In the second half of 2014 the organization’s team
made fact-finding tours of six penal institutions under the
jurisdiction of the Central Prison Administration of the Ministry of
Justice: five missions to prisons (in Niš, Sremska Mitrovica,
Zabela, Požarevac and Valjevo) one to the Special Prison Hospital in
Belgrade, as well as monitored the functioning of the newly
established alternative sanctions offices in...
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