Workshop on Foreign National Prisoners (November 2016)
Foreign National offenders pose practical challenges to those who are working with them in the custodial and community setting. This workshop attracted over 60 participants from prison, probation and NGO’s from 21 European countries, to hear presentations and engage in discussion and debate on this increasingly important area of criminal justice policy and practice.
The workshop was jointly organized by the Belgium Prison Service and the EuroPris-CEP Foreign National Prisoners Expert Group, from which 6 members provided key presentations.
The purpose of the workshop was to promote better national regulation and best practice for foreign national prisoners in Europe through contributing to a greater awareness of FNP issues and through improving the management, rehabilitation and resettlement needs of FNP’s.
The aim of the workshop was to:
- promote the welfare and interests of European nationals who are imprisoned outside their country of residence, in order to facilitate their social reintegration.
- promote cooperation and the exchange of information between national and international agencies and groups which support prisoners abroad and their families.
- liaise with individuals as well as state and non-governmental bodies which provide support to prisoners abroad.
A World Café session was used to maximise participant engagement and sharing of knowledge amongst participants.
Reports
Presentations
EuroPris & CEP Foreign National Prisoners Expert Group
Nick Hammond
The quest for rehabilitation and reintegration of FNPs in Belgium
Steven de Ridder
Foreigners in European prisons between 2000 and 2015
Natalia Delgrande
Managing foreign national prisoners – The Belgian experience
Sofie Vantomme
Foreign Offenders – The Challenge to Offender Management
Toyin Folawiyo
Foreign Offenders in Italy - response of prison and probation services
Luisa Ravagnani
Our prisons working with returned prisoners from abroad
Andreea Cana
Our prisons working with returned prisoners from abroad - the view from Romania Understanding the impact on the Albanian Prison Service of receiving back nationals
Erjon Tema
A ‘Scandinavian perspective’ - Foreign Nationals
Henrik Bonde Marker
Foreign national prisoners – the Swedish experience
Jennie von Alten
Foreign national offenders in Norway
Gerhard Ploeg
Foreign Offenders and Criminal Justice
Nick Hardwick
The FORINER project
Inge van Acker
What’s in it for you?
Pauline Crowe
International Office Dutch Probation Service
Marjolein Groot
Immigration Enforcement
Cheryl Cates
Reintegration of irregular migrants with criminal background in their country of origin
Geert Verbauwhede
The Issue of Foreign National Prisoners
Tom Van der Beken
Picture it in Prison
Femke Hofstee
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