A pleasure to speak at a European Symposium in Belgian Parliament Senate, held by RESCALED 🇧🇪🇪🇺 A gathering of 30 nations – Government Ministers, EU officials, people with lived experience, practitioners.

I spoke on net-widening, remembering Stan Cohen's prescient warnings.

🇪🇺Ahir ens vam reunir amb Veronique Aicha de RESCALED, fundació europea que treballa amb persones privades de llibertat.

Vam compartir experiències sobre programes de reintegració social amb la pastoral penitenciària, Housing i de com fomentar la integració comunitària🏘

La série Changer d’échelle explore des expériences et projets déjà en place, des idées toujours sur le papier et les éventuelles limites d’une détention 'à taille humaine'. (Re)découvrez les articles dans notre lettre d'info spéciale : tinyurl.com/2wbctw8c
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The Changing the scale series explores experience from the field, ideas that remain on paper and the potential limits and challenges of “small-scale” detention.
(Re)discover the articles in our special newsletter: tinyurl.com/bdcruvrd
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Wiep Fokker and Veronique Aicha from RESCALED_NL are visiting the Finnish Prison and Probation Service Rikosseuraamuslaitos to study our open prison concept. Elina Toijanaho gave them a tour in Suomenlinna Prison and Tuija Muurinen will show them around in Vanaja Prison. RESCALED

🎉 It was an honour to host the European Symposium on Detention Houses under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

Rogier Elshout delivered an inspiring closing speech at our symposium, highlighting the shared desire for systemic change across Europe.

🌟 Helene de Vos, our visionary Executive Director, eloquently advocates for change: 'Detention houses are not a quick fix for prison overcrowding.

🇳🇴🪴Leira #DetentionHouse

This week, RESCALED visited this inspiring facility in Leira, Norway. The residents (capacity for 31 adult men) and staff closely collaborate with local schools, employers and the garden center - Leira Gartneri.

📖 Full report coming soon!

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Stichting Restorative Justice Nederland advocates: SMALL-SCALE DETENTION SHOULD BE PART OF A RESTORATIVE CITY.

RJN illustrates this in our newest blog post with the Human Rights City Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Esteve, from Associació Pastoral Penitenciària, shared compelling insights at our European Symposium on #DetentionHouses 🌱💡 His words resonate deeply, underscoring the importance of personalized care and #CommunityBased approaches to reintegration within the 🇪🇸 context.

➡️ Last week IPRT joined RESCALED in a visit to Shelton Abbey open prison in Wicklow.

🌟 It was fascinating to hear about RESCALED's work and to join them for part of their visit to Ireland.

Thank you to the staff and men in Shelton Abbey for being so hospitable.

🌱 Curious about the advantages a social enterprise can bring to the management and development of a detention house? Chiara Serafini from Reshape explores this question in our newest blog. Check it out now!

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RESCALED and dark arkitekter as presenting a small-scale and community-integrated prototype at #IPIC2024 in 📍 Istanbul, Turkey ICPA EuroPris

Looking forward to meeting TDs and Senators at today's All-Party Oireachtas Group on Penal Reform. 👥

The focus will be on 'Reimagining prison and punishment’.

Speakers from Extern Ireland, Cork Alliance Centre, and Irish Penal Reform Trust (on RESCALED) will join us at 11am in Leinster House AV room.

'It's not working' 🗣️ Opening the RESCALED Symposium in the Belgian Senate, Belgian Minister for Justice Paul Van Tigchelt reflects on the traditional prison model.

Imagining a future focused on small-scale detention, he speaks of 'political courage to do the right thing' 💭

Prison Insider est, cette semaine, un peu partout.
Ce mercredi, Florence Laufer et Carolina Nascimento sont à Bruxelles pour un après-midi de discussions autour des maisons de détention, avec RESCALED.

Prison Insider is in different places this week.
Today, Florence Laufer and Carolina Nascimento are in Brussels for an afternoon of discussions about detention houses, with RESCALED.

.Irish Penal Reform Trust goes international ✈️

Thrilled to be representing IPRT and Ireland at the RESCALED Symposium 🇮🇪

How can we best challenge and reimagine the concept of prisons? 🤔

I'll be doing a deep dive and picking brains about detention houses over the next couple of days 💬

COPE is attending today the European Symposium on Detention Houses, organised by RESCALED in Brussels!

COPE will focus on the need of reframing the dialogue, amplifying the voices of children with imprisoned parents and combat stigma.

Read more👉 symposium.rescaled.org