10th Annual General Meeting and Conference

The International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA)
is a dynamic organization devoted to improving global understanding and
professionalism in the correctional sector. The Association is dedicated to
advancing professional corrections with a mission to contribute to public safety and
healthier communities. Our membership is open to all peoples and reflects all areas and
levels within the criminal justice system. The Association’s Annual General Meeting and
Conference, which is set out in this conference Program, is the encapsulation of ICPA’s principal
objective to promote, maintain, and strengthen cooperation between individuals, institutions, and
organizations interested in corrections.
As an Association, we could not hope to achieve our objectives if it were not for a committed and
dynamic membership. Also, we would not continue to exist and grow if it were not for the generousity
of a group of committed public, private, and voluntary sector organizations whose support allows the
Association to operate.

www.icpa.ca

Index
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Biographies-11

Sponsors-37

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A Decade of Lessons Learned
Welcome to the Czech Republic, to Prague, and to the 10th ICPA AGM and Annual Conference!

Most of you here will recognise that this conference is a milestone in the development of our Association.
It marks our 10th anniversary and in many ways one has a sense
that we are ‘coming of age’ in Prague.
The world of corrections has changed significantly since the Association was
formed in 1998. It is now the exception to find a jurisdiction where prisoner numbers
are not increasing year-on-year or where overcrowding is the exception and not the norm.
It is hard to think of a jurisdiction where community services are not struggling to cope with
providing quality support to the vast ‘army’ of prisoners who move from incarceration to some
form of parole or community supervision. In some parts of the developing world, the struggle is a
more fundamental one: how to feed a prisoner population when the population at large faces famine
and extreme poverty; to address the healthcare needs of a prisoner population, high numbers of whom,
have HIV/AIDS, when pharmaceuticals are in extremely short supply for the general population. This is
the present-day reality of corrections whether it is in the developed or the developing world.
In this changing world, the role that we can play as an Association becomes even more important. We are at
heart an Association of correctional professionals and this conference displays clearly what ICPA is about:
exchanging ideas, sharing best practices, listening to and, importantly, learning from what others are doing.
Some of you will be here for the first time; others will be reflecting on the many previous conferences that
they have attended. Whether this is your first, or your tenth I hope you learn from the experience and enjoy
the company of your colleagues and our hosts. Our organisation exists to share best practice in the field
of corrections and no other part of our activity achieves this with the same success as what we will all be
doing over the next few days. At this year’s conference we will have some 350 delegates coming from
some 50 countries. What is more, there will be over a hundred speakers.
As we move now to a second decade, we need to build on and exploit the unique position ICPA
occupies in corrections. There are many other community corrections or prisons organisations
and conferences but few if any like ICPA that brings together correctional professionals from
the developed and developing world and from public, private and voluntary sectors the opportunity to share ideas; to advance professional corrections.
I hope you enjoy the next few days. To those of you who are members of
the Association a particular welcome and to those of you who are not,
please consider joining us and helping us advance the corrections
profession.
Ed Wozniak
Executive Director, ICPA
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A Special Note to Our Hosts:
The Czech Prison Service
Our host, the Prison Service of the Czech Republic (PSCR), administers 35
prisons and is responsible for 20,000 detainees and convicts. Besides regular
male prisons there are also special prisons for juvenile (aged 15 to 18) and female
prisoners, including mothers with children up to the age of 3 years. The Prison Service
has approximately 10,500 employees structured into three categories: prison guards,
judicial guards and civil employees. Members of the uniformed prison guard are responsible
for security in prisons and remand prisons as well as for transport of prisoners. Members of the
judicial guard, who are also uniformed, provide order and security in buildings of the Ministry of
Justice, courts and state attorneys’ offices. Civil employees (educators, pedagogues and psychologists)
are in direct contact with prisoners and the administration service provides organizational, economic
and medical services of the Prison Service
The Prison Service of the Czech Republic closely cooperates with numerous other state and non-governmental
organizations, among which the most important is the Probation and Mediation Service (PMS). The major
objective of the PMS is to settle effectively conflicts related to criminal activities and to administer and
supervise alternative penal sanctions.
The Czech Republic is a country of some 10.5 million inhabitants and its capital and biggest city is Prague.
Located on both banks of the Vltava River, the city has a history that stretches back more than 1,100 years
and is political, economic and cultural centre of the Czech state. Prague city has more than 1.2 million
inhabitants with the metropolitan area almost 2 million. Prague is generally considered to be one of the
most spectacular European cities, which is reflected by the astonishing number of tourists. In 1992,
the historical centre of Prague was listed in the UNESCO list of cultural heritage. Prague has many
apposite nicknames, for example Praga mater urbium (Prague, Mother of the Cities), Praga caput
regni (Prague, Head of the Kingdom), The Golden City or the Hundred-spired City.
Finally, we would like to thank our host Ludìk Kula, the Director General of the
PSCR. We would also like to thank the many staff of the PSCR who have worked
so tirelessly to make this conference happen. A particular note of thanks to
Gabriela Slováková; Iva Prudlová, Alexandra Matiašová, Hana Podzemská,
Otakar Michl and Robert Káčer and all their colleagues who worked
so tirelessly to make the conference a success and to make
our stay in Prague an enjoyable one.



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PROGRAM

SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2008

09:45-10:30	 ICPA: New Horizons
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Tony Cameron and Ed Wozniak, ICPA

12:00 - 17:00	 Registration

10:30-11:00	 Break

	

11:00-12:00	 Parallel Sessions

(1st Floor)

(Belvedere Foyer)

Exhibitor Set-Up

SUNDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2008
‘A Decade of Lessons Learned and
Future Challenges’
10:00-17:00	 Registration

14:00-15:00	 ICPA Annual General Meeting
(Prague A-D)

Chair: Herb Nahapiet

Prisons and their Moral Performance
- Alison Liebling, Cambridge University
Using Competition and Contracting to Improve
Prison Performance
- Gary Sturgess, Executive Director, Serco
Institute

18:30-20:30	 ICPA Opening Reception

Moderator: Hans Meurisse

Prague B

3 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Czech Prisons
Moderator: Steve Carter

Prague C

Special Activities and Treatment in Czech Prisons
4 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Czech Prisons
Moderator: Don Head

Prague D

Czech System of Education and Employment of Prisoners and
System of Education for Staff
Martin Váòa, Antonín Sùva and Milena Šimèáková, Czech Republic

5 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Czech Prisons
Moderator: Orit Adato

Budapest

Czech Prisons and Security

Petr Juøíèek, Adam Široký and Pavla Skybská, Czech Republic

12:00-13:00	 Lunch

(Loreta)

(Belvedere Foyer)

13:00-15:00	 A Decade of Lessons Learned and Future
Challenges: International Dimensions

MONDAY, 27 OCTOBER, 2008
‘A Decade of Lessons Learned and
Future Challenges’
08:45-09:00	 Opening Ceremonies
(Prague A-D)

09:00-09:15	 Welcome:
Jiøí Pospíšil, Minister of Justice, Czech

Republic
09:15-09:30	 President’s Address

Tony Cameron, Scotland

09:30-09:45	 New Horizons for the Czech Prison Service:
A Decade of Lessons Learned
Chair: Tony Cameron, ICPA
- Ludìk Kula, Director General, Czech Prison
Service



Pavel Štern & Andrea Matoušková, Czech Republic

2 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Czech Prisons

Daniela Voláková, Lenka Moravcová, and Tomáš Koòák, Czech Republic

15:00-17:00	 Performance, Values, and Outcomes in
Public and Private Sector Prisons

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Prague A

Michal Petras, Martina Míèová and Václav Jiøièka, Czech Republic

Refreshments in Prague Foyer

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Moderator: Dan Lombardo

Restorative Justice and Probation, Parole, Prison Services

Czech Prisons and System of the Work with Prisoners

(1st Floor)

13:30	

1 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Czech Probation and
Mediation Service

(Prague A-D)
Chair: Steve Carter, USA
- Harley Lappin, USA
- Bohuslav Burkiewicz, Czech Republic
- Dov Lutsky, Israel

15:00-15:30	 Break
15:30-17:00	 A Decade of Lessons Learned and Future
Challenges: International Dimensions
(continued)

(Prague A-D)
Chair: James Ryan, Australia
- Roberto Santana & Jose Ogando, Dominican
Republic
- Richard Sikani, Papua New Guinea

17:30
Assemble promptly in Hotel Foyer (main entrance)

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TUESDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2008
‘A Decade of Lessons Learned and
Future Challenges’

18:30 - 22:00
Host Country Reception
Velká Klášterní
Hosted by Czech Prison Service

09:00-10:30	 Parallel Sessions
1 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Mental Health Issues
Moderator: Paul Geurts

Prague A

The Diversion and Management of Mentally Ill Prisoners
Ahamafule Agomoh, Nigeria

Forensic Care in Prisons

Heleen Latooij, Netherlands

2 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Healthcare
Moderator: John May

Prague B

WHO Health in Prisons Project: Prisons and Women’s Health
Brenda van den Bergh, Denmark

Promoting Health Protection within a Secure Environment

Entertainment will be provided by a female prison
band called “K-BAND” from Svìtlá and Sázavou
Prison; and a male prison band called “B-BAND”
from Kuøim Prison.

Heather Gourlay, Scotland

3 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Facility Planning & Design
Moderator: Bob Goble

Prague C

Sustainable Correctional Environments
Michael Frawley, Harold Clarke, USA

Why the Working Wing?

Simon Newberry and Oliver Gray, England

4 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Correctional Service of
Canada
Moderator: Kristen Bolgen-Bronebakk

Prague D

‘A Wind of Change’

Don Head, Brenda Lepage and George Centen, Canada

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Community and staff safety;
Consolidate existing partnerships, create new ones;
Challenges generated by the changing inmate population;
Offender accountability; and
Integration of offenders’ correctional plans and availability
of community services.
5 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Technology
Moderator: Bob Elson

Vienna

Offender Management: a Design-based Approach to Control
Predatory and Assaultive Behaviour
James Kessler, USA

Safe and Sound: Architecture, Archetype and the Interpretation
of Safe Living in Prison
Anita Wilson, England

6 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Organizational Perspectives
Moderator: Harald Fosker

Rome

Australian Cross-Border Justice Project
Peter Severin, Australia

There also will
be a “Fire and
Smoke Show” performed by the
Deputy Director
of Rýnovice
Prison.

The Public Attorney’s Office and its Advocacy in Saving Lives
Persida Rueda-Acosta, Phillipines

7 A Decade of Lessons Learned: The South Asia Experience
Moderator: Javier Bustamante

Budapest

Prison Design in India
Ruchipurna Jena, India

Prison Reforms in Resource Poor Settings
Jayadev Sarangi, India

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10:30-11:00	 Break

13:30-15:00	 Imprisonment in the USA

(Belvedere Foyer)

(Prague A-D)
Chair: Dan Lombardo, USA

11:00-12:30	 Parallel Sessions

The Costs, the Consequences, the Future
- Susan K. Urahn, Managing Director of Pew
Center on the States, The Pew Charitable
Trusts

1 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Management
Moderator: Mike Ewart

Prague A

The Management of Dual Gender Prisons
Simon Taylor and Mike Conway, England

The Challenge of Reducing Prisoner Numbers
- Martin Horn, Commissioner, New York City
Department of Correction

Enhancing the Lives of Female Inmates – a Proposal
Vitaya Suriyawong, Thailand

2 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Aspects of Restorative
Justice
Moderator: Martin Grann

Prague B

Restorative Justice in the Belgian Prison System: from Project
to Policy
Christine D’Hont, Belgium

15:00-15:30	 Break

(Belvedere)

15:30-16:00	 The Role of Corrections in Post Conflict
Stabilization, and Security Sector Reform
(Prague A-D)
Chair: Tony Cameron, ICPA
- David T Johnson, State Department, USA

Khulisa - A4e: A Partnership for Restorative Justice
Roy Newey, UK and Lesley Ann Van Selm, South Africa

3 A Decade of Lessons Learned
Moderator: Gary Hill

Prague C

Reduction in Using Incarceration
Ali Akbar Yassaghi, Iran

16:00-17:30	 The Position Central and South America: A
Plenary Panel Session and Discussion
(Prague A-D)
Chair: Javier Bustamante

The Use of Prison Staff to Motivate Offenders
Martin Seddon and Chris Frost, England

Panel:
- Patricio Patino, Mexico
- Jaime Vilanova, Haiti
- Gilbert Enriquez Caceres, El Salvador
- Julio Cesar Cepeda, Argentina

4 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Moderator: John May

Prague D

The Management of Health and HIV Issues in Nigerian
Prisons
Aniele Nwosu, Nigeria

Promoting Officers’ Efficiency through Working with Prison
Staff Families
Tola Ogundipe, Nigeria

Free Evening

5 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Reintegration
Moderator: Dan Lombardo

Vienna

Widening the Net

Elizabeth White, Canada

Partnerships for the Reintegration of Offenders
Upneet Ialli, India

6 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Oceania Perspectives

Truth in Drug Testing

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Magnus Björkqvist, Sweden

Budapest

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Loren Buddress and Ken Pesso, USA

12:30-13:30	 Lunch
(Loreta)



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Advances in Drug Testing Technology

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Richard Harding, Australia

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Nadia Harrison, Australia

The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture
and Other Corms of Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment
or Punishment (OPCAT)

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Rome

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Moderator: James Ryan

Human Rights and Correctional Management: Oceania

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WEDNESDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2008
Re-Defining ‘What Works?’ - Lessons
Learned and New Directions
09:00-10:30	

Parallel Sessions
Prague A

The Prevention of Deaths in Custody: The Canadian
Experience
Howard Sapers, Canada

Ellen Beem, Netherlands

Prague B

Alcohol and Violence among Young Male Offenders in Scotland
Bill McKinlay and Alasdair Forsyth, Scotland

Incarceration of Drug-dependant People in Compulsory
Treatment Centres and Prisons in South East Asia
Sonia Bezziccheri, Thailand

3 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Prague C

A Decade of Evidence-based Practice in Correctional Services
in England and Wales
Sarah Mann and Claire Wiggins, England

A Decade of Advancing Corrections: Lessons Learned – Future
Challenges
Hwang Hongsung, Korea

4 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Central European Issues
Moderator: Nick Brooke

Prague D

Polish Corrections: Halfway to Late Modernity
Mariusz Sztuka, Poland

Journey from Totalitarian Prisons: the Romanian Experience
Dorin-Gabriel Muresan & Lucian Hulpoi, Romania

5 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Moderator: Richard Harding

Vienna

Transparency in Resocialisation: How to Transform former
Prisoners into Popular Citizens
Rien Timmer, Netherlands

Creating an Organizational Learning Environment in Prisons
Faye Taxman, USA

6 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Moderator: John Nurse

Cracow

Technology Partnerships to Deliver Improved Safety and
Security in Prisons
Barry Matthews, New Zealand
Mike Manisty, England

7 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Latin America
New Horizons
Patricio Patino, Mexico
Jaime Vilanova, Haiti
Gilbert Enriquez Caceres
Julio Cesar Cepeda, Argentina

Karel van Duijvenbode, Netherlands

The Victory of the Soul
Israel Prison Service

2 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Prague B

Denise Robinson and Randy Shively, USA

Introducing a Prison-based Drug Programme
Tineke De Waele, Belgium

3 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Moderator: Hans Meurisse

Prague C

From Vision to Reality: Quality Improvement and Programme
Implementation in Denmark
Malene Windfeldt, Denmark

Regional Co-operation in the Chain of Justice

Tom Minkenberg and Rob Platzbeecker, Netherlands

4 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Moderator: James Ryan

Prague D

Correctional Therapeutic Communities

Emma Cassar and Coleen Hunter-Zwarts, Australia

Prison Quality and Indigenous Populations

John Rynne, Australia; Alison Leibling, England; and Jens Tolstrup,
Denmark

5 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Management Issues
Moderator: Herb Nahapiet

Vienna

Total Quality Management in a Penitentiary Organisation: the
Case of Ghent
Hans Meurisse, Belgium

Staff Evaluation: the Case of St Gillis Prison
Isabelle Storme, Belgium

6 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Moderator: Anita Wilson

Cracow

International Award for Young People

Andrew McMenamin, David McCann, Nick Brooke, David Banks, United
Kingdom

Victims and Saviours: Children and their Incarcerated Parents
Winie Hanekamp, Netherlands

7 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Prisoner Education
Moderator: Harald Fosker

Budapest

The Use of IT in Prison Education
Matt Logan and Phil Emery, England

Digital Inclusion and Offender Rights
Moderator: Javier Bustamante

Prague A

Project Aftercare: Reintegration to Society

The Challenge of Re-entry

2 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues

Moderator: Frank Porporino

1 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues

Moderator: Frank Porporino

The Dutch Experience
Moderator: Jim Jeffcott

(Loreta)

11:00-12:30	 Parallel Sessions
Moderator: Haim Szmulewitz

1 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Prisoner Safety
Moderator: Isabelle Hight

10:30-11:00	 Break

Budapest

Education Behind Bars: the Nigerian Experience
Olusola Ogundipe Mni, Nigeria

12:30-13:30	 Lunch - Sponsored by IACFP
(Belvedere)

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13:30-14:30	 Understanding What Works: New Directions
(Venue: Prague A-D)
Chair: John Gannon, IACFP
- James Bonta: Public Safety, Canada

14:30-15:15	 Plenary Discussion

18:15 - 24:00
10th Anniversary Special Event
Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Narodní dùm na Smíchovì
(National House, Smíchov)

15:15-15:45	 Break

(Belvedere)

15:45-17:15	 Parallel Sessions
1 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Correctional Oversight
Moderator: Howard Sapers

Prague A & B

Correctional Oversight: Challenges, Prospects and Lessons
Uju Agomoh, Nigeria; Howard Sapers, Canada; Richard Harding,
Australia; and Tom McGonigle, Northern Ireland

2 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Technology
Moderator: Bob Goble

Prague C & D

Advantages and Obstacles to the Implementation of New
Technology
Andreas Wullen and Tim Payne, Australia

Applying Advanced Technology in a Humane and Effective
Manner
Robert Hood, USA

3 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Offender Issues
Moderator: Orit Adato

Vienna

The Peers Program: How Successfully Released Prisoners Can
Help Newly Released Prisoners
Avraham Hoffman, Israel

A Pathway Towards Mental Well-being Following Imprisonment
Vince Fletcher, Scotland

4 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Effective Practices
Moderator: Dan Lombardo

Cracow

Reducing Recidivism in the Netherlands - Cooperation
Between Prison, Probation, Local Partners
Gre Eleveld, The Netherlands

A Methodological Framework for Conducting Cross-cultural
Comparative Research
Evelyne Vallieres, Canada

5 A Decade of Lessons Learned: Organizational Issues
Moderator: John Nurse

18:15	
18:45-19:00	
19:00	
19:30	

Depart hotel
Arrival to the National House
Smichov
Welcome drink
Gala Dinner begins

20:30	

AWARDS CEREMONY

21:00	
22:30	
22:15	

Main course and dessert
Coffee/Tea
Music and entertainment

22:45	
00:30	

1st bus departs to the hotel
The last bus departs to the hotel

(1st and 2nd course)

(after the second course)

(bar opens)

Budapest

Development and Implementation of PPP in a Correctional
Services Environment
Michael Houle, Canada

Advances in Electronic Monitoring
Tami Mazel, Israel

‘Sleep when you get home!’



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THURSDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2008
‘A Decade of Lessons Learned and
Future Challenges’

FRIDAY, 31 OCTOBER 2008
‘Cultural Programme’
09:00 - 13:00

09:00-10.00	 The Challenge of Re-entry and Re-integration
(Prague A-D)

	

Chair: Frank Porporino, Canada
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Diane Williams and Deanne Benos, USA

10:00-11:00	 Perspectives on Re-entry in Developed,
Developing, and Post Conflict Countries
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Carol Shapiro, USA;
Indira Ranamagar, Nepal;
Flavia Nabugere Munaaba, Uganda
Herta Toth, Hungary.

Price: 950 CZK / 40.00 EURO / 50.00 USD
Meeting point: Hotel Diplomat

Bus to Prague Castle – vista – Strahov – departure
– vista – bus – Jirasek Bridge – Resslova street
– Charles Square – Jecna street – I.P. Pavlova
Square – National Museum – Florenc

11:00-11:30	 Break

(Belvedere)

11:30-12:00	 A Decade of Lessons Learned and Future
Challenges: Organisational Leadership
	

Chair: David Banks, G4S
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Ole Ingstrup, Past President, ICPA

12:00-12:05	 Closing Remarks from the Host Country
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Ludìk Kula, Director General, Czech Prison
Service

12:05-12:15	 The 11th AGM and Conference
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John Nurse, Barbados

12:15-12:30	 President’s and Executive Director’s Closing
Remarks
12:30-13:15	 Lunch

(Loreta)

13:15	

Assemble at Hotel Front

Walking : Royal Road – the Municipal House
– the Astronomical Clock – entrance to the
Historical Halls of the Old Town Hall - Old
Town Square – Charles Bridge – Lesser Town

13:15-17:00	 Prison Visits

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Budapest, Hungary

2000
Capetown, South Africa

2001
Perth, Australia

2002
The Netherlands

2003
Miami, Florida USA

2004
Beijing, China

2005
Edinburgh, Scotland

2006
Vancouver, BC Canada

2007
Bangkok, Thailand

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BIOGRAPHIES

Ahamafule Agomoh is Consultant Psychiatrist, Public
Health Physician and Medical Director of the Federal
Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. He also
holds a Diploma in Statistics and Computer science.
Before becoming the Medical Director, he was Head of
Clinical Services and Training at the same institution.
Uju Agomoh received a B.Sc. in Psychology from the
University of Jos, an M.Sc. in Clinical Psychology from
the University of Lagos, an M.Sc. in Sociology: from
the University of Ibadan and an M.Phil. in Criminology from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
England. Dr. Agomoh is the Founder and Executive Director of Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action
(PRAWA). In addition to this, she is actively involved
in other work, including for example as National Coordinator, National NGO Coalition on Penal Reform and
West African Regional Coordinator, African Network
Against Torture (ANAT). She was appointed in July
2000 as a federal Commissioner and member of Governing Council of the National Human Rights Commission for a four-year tenure. She has also served as a
consultant to the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights and assisted the Special Rapporteur
of the African Commission on Prisons in Africa and
Centers of Detention during the Assessment Mission
to the Gambia (July 1999). Dr. Agomoh has written
several publications on prison/penal reform, torture,
human rights, gender and development issues.
David Banks  joined G4S (formerly GSL and Group
4) in 1988 from the Thomas Cook Group in the role
of Finance Director, establishing the role of Managing
Director of Custodial Services in 1995. Currently David is Group Managing Director of G4S Care & Justice Services. David has been at the forefront of developments across many aspects of the G4S business
both in the UK and overseas, and was instrumental
in the development of custodial services to the Home
Office since these were introduced in the early 1990s
and subsequently in Australia and South Africa. In
the custodial sector, David oversees the company businesses responsible for the design, build, management
and finance of prisons, children’s services, immigra12

tion services, electronic monitoring, prisoner transportation and court services. David has a Bachelor of
Science, Management Services (Manchester) and is a
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England and Wales.
Jose Bautista is Director of the Correction and Rehabilitation Center of Elias Piña. Prior to that he held
similar positions in Mao and Puerto Plata. He has a
Bachelor of Arts in Advertising Creativity and Citation
Management from the UASD University and a Diploma
in Management and Treatment Penitentiary (Penitentiary National School).
Ellen Beem works for the Dutch Correctional Agency.
Deanne Benos  was appointed by Governor Rod R.
Blagojevich as the first woman to serve as the Assistant Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections
in November 2003. While providing the second tier of
agency management support to the Director, she has
primarily been charged by the Governor with developing management solutions that improve community
safety through addressing the state’s recidivism rates.
Key initiatives managed out of the Office of the Assistant Director are the Governor’s Sheridan National
Model Drug Prison & Re-entry Program and “Operation Spotlight” Parole Reform Plan. Both initiatives
place a greater emphasis than ever before on community supervision, capacity-building and partnerships as
a method of reducing crime in high impact areas. The
Office of the Assistant Director also maintains a strong
focus on the state’s juvenile system, including representation on the Redeploy Illinois Planning Board and
development of the state’s Juvenile Regionalization
Plan. Prior to her current position, Ms. Benos served
as the Policy Director to Governor Blagojevich. She
began working with the State of Illinois after serving
as the Associate Director for Crime & Gun Safety of
the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Bill Clinton. She is a graduate of Northwestern
University.

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Brenda van den Bergh  is Technical Officer at the
Health in Prisons Project, WHO Europe in Copenhagen
since June 2007. Before that she worked at the Agency
for Correctional Institutions in The Netherlands.
Sonia Bezziccheri  has worked at the UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific since 2002
in the areas of HIV/AIDS, drug use and Amphetamine
Type Stimulant, producing the following publications:
‘Synthesis by Country on Existing Amphetamine Type
Stimulants Demand Reduction Data Collection Sources’ (2003); ‘Drugs and HIV/AIDS in South East Asia’
(2004);
and ‘HIV/AIDS and Custodial Settings in
South East Asia’ (2007). In her capacity at the Regional Centre, she has assisted the advancement of
the United Nations Regional Task Force on Drug Use
and HIV Vulnerability in Asia and the Pacific. Prior
to UNODC, she worked for Medecins Sans Frontiers
(MSF) in Hong Kong and Angola; Amnesty International in San Francisco; and the European Commission (on the areas of illicit drugs and Latin America)
in Brussels. She has a Master of Arts in International
Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and a Master of Arts on Intercultural
Management from School of Management (ICHEC),
Brussels. Sonia completed her Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome,
Italy and at University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA where she also studied clinical psychology.
Currently she is appointed as the Associate Adviser on
HIV/AIDS at UNODC in Bangkok. Sonia is to assist
the advancement of UNODC HIV programmatic areas
on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support
amongst injecting drug users, in prison settings and as
it relates to human trafficking in South East Asia.
Magnus Björkqvist  is the Chief Operating Officer of
Biosensor Applications has a Ph.D. in physics from
R.I.T in Stockholm. He has a background as Director
for several international technology focused companies in Life Science and Telecoms industry in the past.
Since 2007 he is Chief Operating Officer for Biosensor
Applications. The company is listed on the Stockholm
Stock Exchange.

Kristin Bølgen Bronebakk is Director General in the
Ministry of Justice in Norway, and has been Head of
the Norwegian Prisons and Probation Service since
2003. Following her university studies in Norway, she
took her Master’s Degree in General Administration
at the University of Maryland, USA. Before taking her
higher education, she worked in an advertising agency
for four years. She started her career as a civil servant
with the National Institute for Consumer Research,
before joining the Ministry of Justice in 1985. Within the justice sector, she has worked with a number
of issues, ranging from Polar Affairs to Civil Defence
and Emergency Planning. She was Director General in
the Department for Courts Administration before her
present job with prisons and probation. Between jobs,
Kristin Bølgen Bronebakk has been living abroad for
12 years, in Saudi-Arabia, Germany, USA and Belgium,
and speaks English, German and French. She has been
a member of the ICPA Board of Directors since 2006.
Nick Brooke is a former Prison Governor in England,
Director of Prisons in the Cayman Islands, Prisons Adviser to Commonwealth Caribbean Countries for Prison
Reform and Development and has has been involved in
Prison Reform programmes in Europe and the South
Caucasus.
Loren Buddress  is Chief Probation Officer for San
Mateo County, responsible for a staff of almost 500
a budget of $72 million. The Probation Department
manages four divisions: the Adult Division, which supervises 6,200 adult offenders; the Juvenile Division,
which supervises 1,650 juvenile probationers; the
Institutions Division that runs the 180 bed Juvenile
Hall, a 60 bed Boys Camp, and a 30 bed Girl’s Camp;
and the Administrative Division, which oversees our
budget, accounting, automation, personnel, and training/background investigations unit. We have recently
opened our Youth Services Center, a $152 million dollar project. It has been described as a facility for youth
and their families which is one of the finest juvenile
facilities in the country, and one in which the youth
and the families who go to the Center will be better off
as a result of the experience. He has a BA Degree, So-

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ciology, San Jose State University; 1969 MA Degree,
Sociology, San Jose State University, 1970
Bohuslav Burkiewicz graduated as a pedagogue. After
he had been working for the Prison Service for more
than thirty years he gradually promoted to the rank of
the 1st Deputy Director General. Besides his major
profession, he also lectured at the Palacký University.
He worked as an expert of the Council of Europe in
various countries, including Albania, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
In 2007 ICPA awarded Bohuslav Burkiewicz for his
contribution to the education and training of the prison
staff.
Gilbert Enrique Caceres  is Director General in the
Prison and Rehabilitation service of El Salvador.
Tony Cameron is the President of ICPA. Tony Cameron has had a distinguished career in the public service
both in Europe and in Scotland. In 1999 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service
(SPS) following a period of some 30 years where he
worked in the Ministerial Private Office in Edinburgh
and London and in a variety of senior management positions in Finance, Food, Agriculture, and International relations where he negotiated as a member of the UK
team in the European Union and chaired EU Council
of Ministers’ Working Groups.
Stephen Carter  founded Carter Goble Lee in 1974
and has more than 35 years of experience dedicated
to the field of justice planning. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Clemson University
and his Master’s Degree in Urban Design and Planning from the Architectural Association, London, England. Additional post-graduate studies were completed
in Economics at the London School of Economics,
in Transportation Planning at Imperial College, and
in Sociology at the University of South Carolina. He
is chairman and managing principal of Carter Goble
Lee with offices in South Carolina, Georgia, California, Washington, DC, and Abu Dhabi. He is also vicechairman of Ecover, Inc. in Los Angeles and Belgium.
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Mr. Carter has led consulting projects in more than
35 states and 300 counties involving public policy and
plans. In the area of international justice projects, Mr.
Carter has advised the Governments of Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Peru, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, the Republic of South Africa, the
Republic of Georgia, Singapore, and Venezuela. Mr.
Carter regularly presents papers at national and international conferences on criminal justice policies, planning, and design. Internationally, he has been a guest
lecturer in Beijing, Warsaw, Budapest, Perth, Buenos
Aires, Cancun, Lima, Ottawa, Cape Town, Amsterdam,
Vancouver, San Paulo, and London. Mr. Carter writes
a regular column on criminal justice trends in Correctional News and is a contributor to the American Institute of Architecture Knowledge Communities publications, among other professional organizations. He has
also served as a lecturer at several notable academic
institutions, including among others Wakefield Training College in the United Kingdom; and the Harvard
Graduate School of Design Professional Development
Program for planning and design of correctional facilities. A founding Board Member of ICPA, Mr. Carter
currently serves as Treasurer of the Association.
Emma Cassar currently works for Corrections Victoria, within the Department of Justice, in the position
of General Manager, Marngoneet Correctional Centre.
Marngoneet is a 300 bed medium security male prison.
Emma manages all functional areas of the prison including custodial operations, vocational services, business and finance, clinical services and research/quality
assurance. Marngoneet Correctional Centre operates
as a treatment prison – with a focus on reducing re-offending. Emma has a Doctorate of Forensic Psychology from Melbourne University and has worked within
Corrections Victoria as a Forensic Psychologist, Custodial Operations Manager, Clinical and Offender Programs Manager and Project Manager. Emma has also
worked in a private practice for over four years, focusing on providing clinical supervision, organisational
consultancy work, and management of an Employee
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ing, Emma managed several small businesses, and has
lectured at several universities.
George Centen works for the Correctional Service of
Canada.
Julio Cesar Cepeda  is General Director of Correctional Services in the Argentina Federal Penitentiary
Service.
Harold W. Clarke  is Director of the Massachusetts
Department of Corrections and President of the American Correctional association. He was appointed to
this position by Governor Christine Gregoire in 2005.
Before this appointment, he was director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. He had
been appointed to this position by three different governors since he began his term in 1990. Since joining
the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services in
an entry-level position in 1974, Mr. Clarke held eleven
different positions, giving him knowledge and expertise in areas ranging from correctional leadership to
management of special inmate populations to design
of correctional facilities. Mr. Clarke played a role in
repealing Nebraska’s “get tough” legislation in the
late 1990s and served on the Governor’s Task Force
on Prison Alternatives from 1991 to 1993. He contributed to publications such as The State of Corrections,
The Nebraska Sheriff, and Corrections Today. He was
active in numerous civic and community groups, including the Lincoln Public Schools Foundation, Child
Advocacy Center of Lincoln/Lancaster County, and the
Lincoln Council on Alcoholism and Drugs. He has
consulted for the National Institute of Corrections and
other branches of the United States Department of Justice and has spoken about criminal justice issues both
locally and nationally. Mr. Clarke has received awards
from the Nebraska Correctional Association, the Nebraska Association of Substance Abuse Directors, and
the Association of State Correctional Administrators.
Mike Conway works for Kalyx Services.
Karel van Duijvenbode works for the Dutch Correctional Agency.

Gré Eleveld works for the Dutch Correctional Agency
where she is Manager of the Programme Reducing Recidivism in the Cluster Penitentiary Institutions Rijnmond-Rotterdam.
Phil Emery  is Head of Learning and Skills in Kalyx
Services.
Vince Fletcher  is the Mental Health Promotion Coordinator in the Scottish Prison Service.
Alasdair Forsyth is the Senior Research Fellow at the
Glasgow Centre for the Study of Violence (GCSV) at
Glasgow Caledonian University, where he is currently funded by the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice
Research (SCJCR) as the senior researcher on their
‘Violence Risk & Public Health’ stream. He has over
20 years experience working in the field of alcohol and
other drugs research. He is currently also the course
co-ordinator of the taught post-graduate option Issues
in Drug Use Research, on the Masters of Research
(MRes) program, at the University of Glasgow.
Michael H. Frawley  is the Design, Vice President of
DMJM. He is a highly experienced and nationally recognized justice system professional who has devoted
his 37 years of practice to the planning and design
of justice facilities throughout the United States and
abroad. His resume includes: serving for ten years as
the only architect in the United States serving on the
ACA Commission on Accreditation; past Chair of the
National U.S. AIA Committee on Architecture for Justice; and multiple speaking and lecturing engagements
for the American Jail Association, American Correctional Association, Correctional Accreditation Manager’s Association and at the AIA National Convention.
Chris Frost  of East West Offender Management has
been working on various prison projects in Eastern
Europe for over 20 years.
Robert (Bob) Gibson is Director, CSSP, Corrections
System Support Program - a US Dept of State/INL Program since 2005. This is the Department of State’s
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corrections system. The CSSP works directly with the
Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Central Prisons Directorate (CPD). The CSSP, as one of three members of the
international secretariat of the Afghanistan Prisons
Reform Working Group (with UNAMA, and UNODC)
and provides direct assistance to the GOA in training,
design and building, records management and automation, case management, administrative management,
and counter narcotics issues, and more. After its first
year the CSSP received an Award from the Dept. of
State for providing “outstanding services.” Prior to
this he was President of Preston Corp., for seven years,
providing justice system analysis, strategic planning,
information system development, and management
services, “Local Justice Systems, Around the World.”
Bob Gibson also worked for eight years (overlapping
above) as a consultant for the National Institute of
Corrections (NIC); Senior Associate for the Pretrial
Services Resource Center; Technical Director for Vera
Institute of Justice experimental INS project; Chief
Executive and principal in Cadi Corp, a justice system
software development company; Director, Fairfax District Court (VA), Court Services; Supervisor of Community Corrections, Adams County Sheriff ’s Office
(CO); and ten years with Alachua County Corrections
and Court Services (FL); and Officer, Florida Dept. of
Corrections. Bob was raised in developing nations and
worked on engineering projects in the 1970s in Laos
and Afghanistan.
Heather Gourlay is the Health Protection Advisor in
the Scottish Prison Service.
Oliver Gray  works for A4E. A4e delivers Offender
Learning and Skills Services (OLASS) in 32 prisons
across England; working in partnership with each prison to develop tailored education and training for their
offenders. The OLASS programme is overseen by the
Learning and Skills Council. A4e works on their behalf to educate offenders and help them find employment on their release. OLASS forms a vital part of the
prison reform programme and research has shown that
improving the transition between offender release and
their entry to employment programmes can make a
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significant impact on reducing re-offending rates. A4e
is the largest supplier of New Deal services, delivered
on behalf of Jobcentre Plus, across the country and
is therefore strongly placed to deliver this joined up
service. High quality education and training is supplemented by expertise and experience gained over 20
years of delivering employment training and opportunities.
Winie Hanekamp  studied Social Work (from 1985
– 1989) in Ede. She worked in several children-homes
as a social worker. In 1994 she volunteered as coordinator of Inland Agency, in California, a non-profit
organisation, which among others develops programs
to reduce violence in society. The program she helped
implement was called “Peace Builders”. Schools implemented this program with the thought that children
could make a difference. On her return to Holland,
she again worked as a social worker in a professional
foster home. Together with her husband she cared for
4 teenagers with behavioural or family-problems 24/7.
In total nine teenagers were taken care of. From 2000
onwards she worked for two and a half years as a social
worker in foster care. She gave support to families with
3 or more foster-children. In 2006 she became the national coordinator OKD for Exodus Nederland.
Richard Harding is the inaugural Inspector of Custodial Services for Western Australia. This position, akin
to that of the UK Chief Inspector of Prisons, was established in 2000. Prior to taking up his appointment,
Richard Harding has been Director of the Australian
Institute of Criminology, a member of the Australia Law
Reform Commission, a director of the national broadcaster (the Australian Broadcasting Commission) and
the foundation Director of the Crime Research Centre at the University of Western Australia. Over the
years Richard has had extensive involvement with the
United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice and also with the Asia and the Pacific
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Nadia Harrison works for the Australian Capital Territories Correctional Service where she is a lawyer in
the Policy Section in Canberra.
Don Head  is the newly appointed Commissioner of
Corrections in Correctional Service of Canada. Don
has worked in both provincial and federal corrections
all his life. He is a Board member of ICPA.
Avraham Hoffmann  is the chairman of the Jerusalem’s Volunteers Organisations Council and board
member of the National Council of the Volunteers
Organizations. He is a Social Policy and Criminology
Lecturer at the College of Judea and Samaria (Ariel).
He is a member of the Council of the Israeli Prisoner
Rehabilitation Authority (PRA). In October 2002 he
retired from the civil service after serving it for over
19 years as the Director General of the PRA, since its
foundation in 1984. As a state entity devoted solely to
the rehabilitation of released inmates and their families, Mr. Hoffmann had constantly strived for co-operation between the different authorities and community services to enable greater chances for successful
rehabilitation. He has developed innovative programs
to suit the special needs of the different populations
of released inmates (e.g. mothers with children, young
inmates, and inmates that were incarcerated for violent
behaviour toward their family). “Everyone has a right
to a second chance,” is the Authority’s leading philosophy. The PRA offers help to all released inmates: men
and women, Arab and Jews. Society is encouraged to
take part in the rehabilitation of released inmates by
helping them and shattering the stigma through special
programs (“friendly employers”, the students-inmates
shared housing program). Among his previous activities he was spokesman of the ministry of Labour and
Social Affairs. He is chairman of the Executive Board
of the Child’s Development Centre, Jerusalem, since
1995. He is a former member of the Executive Board
and Council of the Anti-Drug Authority. In 1990 he received the Hazani Award for Social Work, and in 2007
he was declared “Man of the Year” by Israel Lions Association. He has published many articles (in English)
about the different PRA programs. He was a commit-

tee member at the ICPA (International Corrections
and Prisons Association) and an honorary member
of the JPSI (Jewish Prisoners Services International,
U.S.A.).
Martin F. Horn is Commissioner of the New York City
Department of Correction, the nation’s largest jail system. He is also Commissioner of the New York City
Department of Probation. He has extensive experience improving government operations and has held
numerous executive posts, primarily in the criminal
justice field. Under Horn’s leadership New York City
changed its approach to status offenders, reducing by
70% the number of PINS (Person in Need of Supervision) petitions going to the Family Court. He also
supported the creation of Esperanza, a major change
in the City’s approach to juvenile delinquents, paving
the way for a substantial restructuring of juvenile justice in New York. During Horn’s tenure the number
of juvenile cases “adjusted” by Probation instead of
going to Family Court tripled. He created the largest
and most ambitious jail re-entry program in the nation.
Under his leadership all sentenced inmates leaving the
City’s jails are afforded meaningful discharge planning
assistance and the opportunity to find a job immediately upon release. He has remade the intake process
to insure all inmates possess the documents needed to
work upon release, he has created systems to identify
high frequency jail and shelter users and worked with
the City’s housing and homeless services community
to address the needs for housing of discharged inmates.
Horn has continued to work to eliminate the introduction of drugs into prisons and jails by initiating New
York’s first drug interdiction program including the
first wide scale drug testing in the City’s jails. Prior
to taking up his current post he served, from March
1995 until January 2000, as Pennsylvania’s Secretary
of Corrections. He earned a bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1969, and a master’s degree in
criminal justice from John Jay College, City University
of New York, in 1974. Horn is a member of the Board
of Governors of the American Correctional Association
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from the Association of State Correctional Administrators.
Christine d’Hont  is a psychologist. She is currently a governor working in the personnel section of her
service’s Headquarters with responsibility for prison
staff. Her previous responsibilities were working
with internees and the Belgian government evaluation
scheme.
Robert Hood is a National Security Specialist with GE
Homeland Protection. He joined GE Homeland Protection with over thirty-three years of correctional experience at the local, state, and federal level. He retired
from the United States Department of Justice, Federal
Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), as warden of the United
States Penitentiary “Supermax” in Florence, Colorado.
He has significant experience with emergency planning and counter-terrorism initiatives. Robert began
his career in criminal justice with the New Jersey Department of Corrections in 1974 as an instructor. He
worked for the Texas Department of Corrections as an
education supervisor before joining the FBOP in 1981.
During his federal career, he held numerous positions
of increased responsibility to include Chief of Internal
Affairs, Assistant Director – Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center, and warden of three major prisons
in Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon. Additionally, he
was the warden of a new private prison near his home
in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Throughout his career, Robert Hood taught undergraduate and graduate
courses in criminal justice studies at five colleges and
universities. He served as a deputized United States
Marshal and participated in international inmate transfers to England and Thailand. As a prison consultant,
he assisted the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Corrections
Division) with senior management development and
organizational planning initiatives. He also provided
assistance to the National Institute of Corrections by
providing security-related training to wardens throughout the United States. Robert is a 1974 graduate from
Rowan State University in New Jersey, where he earned
a bachelor’s degree in education with a minor in corrections. He completed his M.Ed. in 1976 at Trenton
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State College and graduate studies in criminology and
corrections at Sam Houston State University in Texas.
Additional studies were completed at the University of
Copenhagen in Denmark. Security Magazine recently
identified Mr. Hood as one of the “Top 25 Most Influential People in the Security Industry,” and CBS aired
a “60 Minutes” special on his ability to effectively manage the most secured prison in America.
Michael Houle  has spent the past 22 years in various executive and senior management positions in
both private and public sector environments. During
the course of his past tenure, Mike has been responsible for capital project development, program planning,
capital planning, leadership development, alternative
service delivery project implementation and enterprise
wide portfolio management. Mike\’s recent experiences include a broad range of North American consulting
engagements ranging from public private partnership
project implementation and enterprise network planning to capital project business case development.
With an MBA from the University of Victoria (Services
Management) and an MA from Royal Roads University
(Leadership), Mike is a frequent speaker and lecturer
on alternative forms of service delivery and capital
project development.
Lucian Hulpoi is a medical doctor, specializing in abdominal surgery. He has worked in Romanian prison
system since 1999. Since 2004 he has been governor
of Dej Prison Hospital. His main working area is managing health care services of inmate population. He is
interested in health care standards, alcohol and drugs,
treatment of psychiatric ill inmates. He has considerable expertize in medical facilities management.
Coleen Hunter-Zwarts  works for Corrections Victoria, within the Department of Justice.
Hongsung Hwang is a correctional officer. He joined
the correctional service as a junior correctional supervisor and now he is in charge of the “Inmate Court Appearances Division in Dae-gu Prison, which is a very
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than 500 correctional staff. He is responsible for escorting inmates to and from Courts and Prosecutor’s
Offices. He has Master’s Degree in the field of Criminal Justice.
Ole Ingstrup is the immediate past President of ICPA
and the former Commissioner of Corrections of the
Correctional Service of Canada. He has written extensively on corrections practice, leadership and organisational management.
Ruchipurna Jena  is an Indian architect specialising
in prison design.
Václav Jirička graduated in forensic psychology at the
University Erlangen – Nuremberg, Germany. He was
working for one year in the geriatric and mental health
facilities in Sydney. Since 2004 he has worked as a
psychologist in the Remand Prison Liberec and concentrated on offender diagnostics, risk assessment and
treatment. At present he studies at Charles University
in Prague with focus on the assessment and treatment
with mentally disordered offenders. He is a member of
the European Forum for Applied Criminal Politics.
Petr Juøíček received his Master degree in social pedagogy at the Faculty of Education in Brno in 2002. Then
he studied at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and graduated in social-psychological training for forensic practice. He acquired the both
university degrees while working for the Prison Service
of the Czech Republic where he has been employed
since 1995. For seven years he has been working in
the Kuøim prison. In 2004 he was appointed the Head
of Imprisonment Department.
James Kessler  is a recognized specialist in criminal
justice architecture. As a Senior Principal in the Washington DC office of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum
P.C., he serves as the regional Justice Director. During
his more than twenty-nine years at HOK, he has been
the principal designer on numerous major correctional
facilities. Some of these include: the Youth Services
Center in Washington DC, the Mecklenburg County
Jail Central located in Charlotte NC, the Wake County

Public Safety Center in Raleigh NC, the Baltimore Central Intake and Booking Facility in Baltimore MD, the
Fairfax County Adult Detention Center in Fairfax VA,
the Fluvanna Correctional Center for women in VA, the
Montgomery County Detention Center in Clarksburg
MD, and the 1000 cell North Carolina Close Security
Prototype which has been site adapted at multiple locations throughout the state. A graduate of the Yale
University School of Architecture, Mr. Kessler’s design
work has been published extensively. He has authored
articles, including a chapter in the Planning and Design
Guide for Secure Adult and Juvenile Facilities, and a
section in the book Unit Management in Prisons and
Jails. He has spoken at conferences for the American
Correctional Association, American Jail Association
and the International Corrections and Prisons Association. In 1998 he represented the United States at the
international symposium on Prison Architecture held
at the University of London. The paper he presented
there is included as a chapter in the book Prison Architecture: Policy, Design and Experience.
Tomáš Koòák graduated from the University of Plzeò
(BA) branch of cultural and social anthropology. Currently he is studying at Charles University in Prague,
faculty of philosophy, specialization psychology (MA).
He has been working for the Prison Service of the
Czech Republic for six years. He is a therapist and his
specialization is the treatment of drug addicts in therapeutic communities.
Ed Kropp  is an educator and trained facilitator with
an extensive background in executive management.
His educational and facilitation skills have been used
in numerous departments of the government over the
years including the Department of Interior, Health and
Human Services, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
the Drug Enforcement Agency to name a few. Prior
to teaching for the University of Virginia, he had over
33 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has served as a Senior Manager for KPMG
Consulting (Bearing Point) and Director of Commercial Telecommunications for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He also has held vari-

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ous senior level management positions at AT&T, one
of which was managing the telecommunications and
broadcast services for the 1996 Summer Olympics in
Atlanta. Additionally, he is a decorated Vietnam War
and Desert Storm veteran who served for 27 years in
the United States Marine Corps Reserve before retiring as a Colonel. Ed is currently teaching graduate
level courses in research, contract management, statistics, leadership, change management, communications, risk management, project management, and
quality management at the Northern Virginia Center
for the University of Virginia. He is also a volunteer for
the Northern Virginia Literacy Council, an Executive
Board Member of the National Capital Area Council,
Boy Scouts of America, and a certified trainer for the
Institute for Global Ethics. The list of major accounts
for his consulting practice presently includes Science
Application International Corporation (SAIC), Health
and Human Services, Department of Interior (DOI),
the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
(NRECA), MVM Inc., Beers and Cutler, DRS, Inc., and
several other leading national companies. Currently,
Ed volunteers his time in jails and prisons to teach
literacy and do research on cognitive moral development. Prior to receiving his doctorate in Educational
Leadership from the University of Virginia, he earned
an MA from George Mason University, and a BA from
Temple University. Ed also has a Certificate in Project
Management (PMP) from George Washington University and is a member of the National Contract Management Association (NMCA).
Ludìk Kula  joined the Prison Service of the Czech
Republic in 1986 and worked in various posts in the
Remand Prison Brno. Besides his prison work he also
studied psychology and graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy. In 1996 he was appointed the Governor of the
Remand Prison Brno and in 2005 the Minister of Justice appointed him the Director General of the Prison
Service of the Czech Republic. Ludìk Kula is a member
of ICPA and is very active in the field of international
affairs, especially as regards the Visegrad Four (Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary). In 2006 the
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President of the Czech Republic bestowed him the rank
Major-General.
Upneet Lalli is working as Deputy Director in the Institute of Correctional Administration (ICA), Chandigarh
since 1999. This Institute is a training and research
Institute set-up by the Government of India, Ministry
of Home Affairs. I am a Psychologists and also a Law
Graduate. Teaching experience in the University and
presently working for training of police and prison officers of various States of India. A lot of research work
in the area of Criminal Justice System particularly, Human Rights in Prison Management has been done by
me. Various research projects have been undertaken
on behalf of the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), Ministry of Home Affairs and the
Human Rights Commission. Have participated in International Conferences like Asian Pacific Conference
of Correctional Administrators (APCCA) held in New
Zealand (2006) and at Vietnam (2007). I have been a
member of the National Committee to frame the Draft
National Policy Paper on Prison Reforms and Correctional Administration. Published various research Papers and Articles in the Journals and Newspapers. I
am also Editor of the Newsletter of the ICA.
Harley G. Lappin became Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2003. He is responsible for the oversight and management of the Bureau’s 114 institutions
and for the safety and security of the more than 193,500
inmates under the agency’s jurisdiction. He received a
B.A. degree in Forensic Studies from Indiana University in Bloomington, in 1978 and a M.A. degree in Criminal Justice and Correctional Administration from Kent
State University in Kent, in 1985. He began his career
with the Bureau of Prisons in November 1985 as a Case
Manager. In 2004, he received the Presidential Rank
Award of Meritorious Executive. Harley is a member
of the American Correctional Association’s Standards
Committee, which establishes the standards for the accreditation of correctional institutions nationally. He
is also a member of the North American Association of
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Heleen Latooij  works for the Dutch Correctional
Agency
Brenda LePage works for Correctional Service of Canada.
Alison Liebling  is Professor of Criminology and
Criminal Justice and Director of the Prisons Research
Centre at the Institute of Criminology, University of
Cambridge. She has conducted extensive research in
prisons on suicides and suicide attempts, staff-prisoner relationships, incentives ad earned privileges, small
units for difficult prisoners, the role of the prison officer, and measuring the quality of prison life. She has
recently published articles arising from this work, and
on conducting prisons research, in Punishment and
Society, Criminal Justice, Theoretical Criminology and
the British Journal of Criminology. She completed a
book, Prisons and their Moral Performance: A Study
of Values, Quality and Prison Life (Oxford: Clarendon
Press), assisted by Helen Arnold, and an edited book
on The Effects of Imprisonment with Shadd Maruna,
in 2005.
Matt Logan  is the Chief Executive Officer of Leaf.
Leaf was set up in 2003 to support and promote the
use of technology within secure establishments. Leaf
provides a range of services from bespoke software delivering interactive learning materials to offender management software and on-site next day network engineering, Leaf has always attempted to provide reliable,
robust and cost effective solutions to the problems of
using IT in prison establishments encountered by governors, officers, tutors, colleges and prisoners.
Dan Lombardo  has been the President and CEO of
Volunteers of America Delaware Valley (VOADV) since
1988. VOADV is one of 45 agencies of Volunteers of
America, a national faith based not-for-profit human
services and development organization. VOADV, with
over 230 employees, provides services to offenders
in transition, people who are homeless, those with
chronic mental illness, and other special populations.
In 1998 alone, VOADV touched and often changed the

lives of more than 15,000 people. In 1995 Mr. Lombardo led a project to retool all community correctional
programs so that services would use evidence-based
intervention strategies. Services are now based on risk
and needs assessment with treatment strategies being cognitive/behavioral in design. Mr. Lombardo has
a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Psychology and a
Masters of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh. He has served as the Regional Vice President of
the International Community Corrections Association
(ICCA), and was Co-Chair and Host Agency for the fist
ICCA “What Works in Community Corrections” conference. He received a Gubernatorial appointment to the
New Jersey Sentencing Policy Commission; appointed
by the Mayor of Philadelphia to the Mayor’s Task Force
on Management and Productivity; and was chosen by
the Governor of New Jersey to serve as a member of
the New Jersey Family Development Program State
Advisory Board. Mr. Lombardo has authored numerous articles and has been the recipient of many awards
for his work in the field of corrections.
Dov Lutsky is the Deputy Commissioner of the Israel
Prison Service.
Mike Manisty  has held a number of senior governement posts within the England and Wales Prison Service. In September 2003 he was appointed Director of
Corporate Affairs and later became Director of Offender Information Services for the newly formed NOMS
(National Offender Management Service.), a post he
currently holds.
Sarah Mann is Head of the Offender Assessment and
Management Group in the National Offender Management Service, Ministry of Justice, in England and
Wales. She was previously the head of the Interventions and Substance Abuse Group. Her unit has responsibility for NOMS policy in relation to offender
assessment and management as well as for prolific and
other priority offenders. She is a career civil servant
who latterly has worked closely with the prison and
probation services. She was a founder member of the
team that had responsibility for planning the introduc-

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tion of evidence based practice in 1998. From 1998 to
2001 she led the project that developed the joint prison / probation Offender Assessment System (OASys).
Before that she was on secondment to the voluntary
sector.
John P. May is a Board Certified physician in Internal Medicine,and Chief Medical Officer for Armor Correctional Health Services, a private correctional health
care vendor based in Miami, Florida, USA. He is also
the president of Health through Walls, a not-for-profit
organization of correctional health care professionals,
providing voluntary operational and consultative support for improving the health care programs in prisons
of developing countries.
Barry Matthews was appointed Chief Executive of the
Department of Corrections in 2005. Before this he was
the Commissioner of the Western Australia Police Service. As Commissioner, he led an organisation of 5,000
police officers and 1,000 support staff, delivering policing services over the largest policing jurisdiction in the
world. In addition, Barry was chair of the Australasian
Centre for Policing Research as well as a Director on
the Board of the Australian Crime Commission, CrimTrac, Australasian Institute of Police Management, National Crime Statistics Unit, the National Institute of
Forensic Science, Leadership WA and Youth Focus. He
served in the New Zealand Police from 1965 to 1999 of
which the last four years was as Deputy Commissioner.
He has a Masters Degree in Business Administration,
Law Professional examinations, a Bachelor of Law Degree and a Diploma of Criminology, all gained at the
University of Auckland. He is a qualified Barrister and
Solicitor. In 1998 he became a graduate and member
of the FBI National Executive Institute. As Chief Executive of the Department of Corrections Barry leads
an organisation of more than 5,000 staff based at 141
sites across New Zealand. The Department manages
community-based sentences and orders (such as community work and home detention) for over 41,000 offenders each year, and custodial sentences of around
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Tami Mazel-Shachar  leads Elmo-Tech’s sales and
marketing operations in the European and Pacific Rim
markets. Ms. Mazel-Shachar has over 12 years of international sales, marketing and other customer facing
activities. She is responsible for a comprehensive scope
of governmental and business customers activities, as
well as various product engineering internal interfaces.
Ms. Mazel-Shachar holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Arab Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and an
MBA from the University of Manchester, UK.
David McCann  is an ex-offender from Northern Ireland, who was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment in
2001 for a paramilitary connected offence. He was 17
at the time. While inside he took up the Award scheme,
completing all three levels and achieving his Gold
Award in 2007. David speaks eloquently and powerfully about how doing the Award in prison changed his
life permanently and has left him a positive and contributing member of society today.
Tom McGonigle  is an inspector in Criminal Justice
Inspection Northern Ireland. He transferred to CJI
from the Social Services Inspectorate where he had
been Inspector of Probation and Offender Services
since November 2003. He led CJI’s first major thematic inspection on the management of sex offenders
in Northern Ireland, which reported in March 2005.
He has inspected aspects of Probation practice and
governance, as well as adult and juvenile custodial
facilities. Tom joined the Northern Ireland Probation
Service in 1980, and worked in a range of fieldwork,
custodial and community development settings, as a
practitioner and manager. He became Deputy Director of St Patricks Juvenile Justice Centre in 1996, and
joined NIACRO as Director of Operations following the
closure of St Patrick’s in 2000. Tom is particularly interested in international prison comparisons, and has
visited prisons in different countries. He is a strong
supporter of CJI’s collaborative approach to inspection, which aims to help agencies view inspection as
a positive contribution to their organisational practice
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Ken McKellar joined the CGL Team as a Corrections
and Criminal Justice Consultant in 2006. Mr. McKellar brings more than 34 years of experience in corrections consulting and operations. Since joining CGL
he has served as a principal planner for the recently
completed Idaho Corrections Master Plan. He also
assisted with the preparation of the Correctional Best
Practices Benchmarking Analysis and conduct of a
week-long training workshop for the Northern Ireland
Prison Service. During 2005 and 2006 Mr. McKellar
served as the Senior Corrections Advisor (subcontract
employee of MPRI under contract with the Department
of Justice) for the Department of Justice, ICITAP,
Prison Program at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Directed the overall ICITAP training program throughout all of Iraq for the Iraqi Corrections Service (ICS)
and Kurdistan Corrections system. Supervised 70 correctional trainers. Advised and mentored the Minister
of Justice along with the Director General of the ICS
on developing a safe, secure and humane prison system. Prior to assuming the Senior Corrections Advisor
position in July 2005, he served the first half of that
year as the Deputy Director for Administration and
managed the administrative operations which included
the Iraqi Corrections Service (ICS) Training Academy,
Construction, Policy Development, Internal Affairs, Intelligence and Audit Units, along with the Procurement
and Budget Units. Served as the liaison with the ICS
and Iraqi Reconstruction Management Office (IRMO)
assisting in the construction/renovation of new and existing correctional facilities. Ken McKellar was with
the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC)
for more than 31 years as a central office administrator
and institutional warden before finally rising to Deputy
Regional Director supervising the wardens of 15 institutions.
Bill McKinlay  joined the Scottish Prison Service in
1971 as an officer at HM Prison Peterhead. He has
served in Perth, Glenochil Prisons and Edinburgh Prison and was Deputy Governor at Longriggend Remand
Unit. He held the position of Head of Senior Management Training at the Scottish Prison Service College
and Deputy Director Custody at the Scottish Prison

Service Headquarters. He chaired the UK National
Standards Group for the development and introduction
of Custodial Care Standards throughout the United
Kingdom and is a Director and Board member of Skills
for Justice UK. He is also chair of the Scotland Country Group. Bill has been a Governor-in-Charge at Dungavel Prison, Polmont Young Offenders Institution and
Shotts Long Term Maximum Security Prison. He is
presently Governor of Barlinnie Prison. He has a BA
in Social Studies. Attended the first full time academic
Alcohol and Drug Course run at the then Paisley College and worked for the Scottish Council on Alcohol on
a voluntary basis for a number of years. He is member
of the Chartered Management Institute.
Andrew McMenamin  has worked for the last seven
years as Head of Operations for the International Association of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, a successful and long-established development programme for
all young people aged between 14 and 25. His background is in education, mostly in non-formal settings,
working as a Youth Officer, Youth Support Worker, Director of Outdoor Education, and Development Officer.
Although he has never worked in a secure institution,
he has worked directly with “at-risk” youth in Ireland
and Australia, and has worked alongside colleagues
from the police and youth justice sector. He is particularly interested in the success the Award has shown in
reaching young offenders and in changing their mindset, raising their self-confidence and helping them to
reintegrate into their communities with greatly reduced
recidivism. He wants to share examples and stories
from around the world and see the Award offered to
many more young offenders.
Susanna Menis was born in Italy but spent her early
youth in Israel. She completed her Masters Degree in
Law at the University of Bologna in Italy and obtained
a Master of Science in Criminology & Criminal Justice
at the University of Surrey in England. She is currently studying for her PhD at Birkbeck College, London
looking at the custodial system for women.

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Hans Meurisse started his career at the Belgian Justice Department in 1986 at the Criminal Investigation
Department as an expert in the prevention of fraud.
In 1999 he became prison governor in Ghent and was
responsible for the execution of decisions on the operational level and judicial decisions concerning the
deprivation of liberty with reference to detention orders. Since 2006 he has held the post of the DirectorGeneral of the Belgian prisons facilities.
Martina Míčová obtained her Master degree at Charles
University in 2005. Her dissertation thesis dealt with
human resources and levels of education. She has been
working as a special pedagogue in the largest female
prison in the Czech Republic for 3 years. Her professional work is focused on the treatment of juvenile
female convicts, pre-release prisoners and on solving daily problems. She participates in preparation of
treatment programs, conducts educational and special
educational activities and prepares special groups of
convicts for self-supporting life.
Tom Minkenberg  works for the Dutch Correctional
Agency.
Olisola Ogundipe Mni comes from Nigeria
Lenka Moravcová  works for the General Directorate
of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic as a drug
coordinator in the Department of Detention and Imprisonment. She graduated from Jan Evangelista Purkyna University in Ústí nad Labem and at the present,
she is studying social pedagogy at Charles University
in Prague.
Flavia Nabugere Munaaba  from Uganda is a sociallegal expert with extensive managerial, research and
work experience in the field of law, gender, development, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, proposal writing
and development, project management, policy action
research, poverty matters and other social and policy
concerns. She holds both graduate and postgraduate
qualifications in law including Women’s Law, personnel
management, resource mobilization, and fundraising.
In 2001, she successfully completed the requirement
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for an award of a Master of Philosophies Degree in Law
at the University of Zimbabwe. Recent work includes:
initiating and spearheading the implementation of the
Public Defender Project for the Public Defender Association of Uganda (an Organization for legal defence of
the poor), lectures in Gender and the Law, Gender and
Human Rights and Gender and Violence at Makerere
University Faculty of Social Sciences; Department of
Women and Gender Studies, research study on Legal
Issues in Protecting the Rights of Orphans in Uganda (Commissioned by the ARCH Project on Orphans:
Boston University School of Public Health; USAID
funded study).
Dorin-Gabriel Muresan has worked for the Romanian
Prison Service from 1997, working mainly in the security sector. He has a Masters degree in Community
Justice Administration from the Tiffin University of
Criminal Justice (2001). His professional interests
include: the ‘healthy prison’ concept; deaths in custody, suicide and self-harming behaviours in custody.
He has extensive expertize in staff training.
Mike Murphy  is Vice President of Marketing and
Business Development for Management & Training
Corporation (MTC), a private corrections firm located
in Centerville, Utah. MTC is one of the largest adult
private prison firms in the world responsible for over
11,000 inmates in 13 correctional facilities located
in the US, Canada, and Australia. Mike has over 25
years experience working in the private corrections
industry in both senior operational and business development capacities. Mike currently handles MTC’s
Marketing, Government Relations and all international
business development projects. He has worked with
governments in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, South
America, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the UK
developing large-scale prison facilities.
Herb Nahapiet  is Chairman of Kalyx Services, having led Kalyx as Managing Director since 1994. In
that time the company has established a reputation for
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immigration removal centre and 2 half-way houses for
drug abusers in the UK. He is also the Sodexho Worldwide Market Champion, during which time 3 new prisons have been designed, built and financed and are
now operating in Chile. He is also Vice Chairman of
the Koestler Trust, which is a charity promoting arts
for offenders, in the community, or custody, through an
annual competition and exhibition. He was awarded
an OBE by the Queen for this work in 1997. He has
written and given many papers and presentations in
the arenas of Corrections and Construction. In the
latter he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship
and written a book, papers and reports, some with his
wife. He is also a chartered civil engineer and a Visiting Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture at
University College London.
Simon Newberry started his career working for Aldi,
the German discount grocery retailer within the UK
ending up as the Administration & Finance Director
for the NE division. After this he joined A4e, a private
training provider as a Regional Manager in London
managing 7 different offices. After a two year sabbatical to complete his MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney he re-joined A4e.
Initially working as an Operations Director Simon now
heads up their Offender Management Division as the
CEO. The division manages the learning and skills
delivery in 32 UK prisons and runs various community based ex-offender programmes employing circa
600 people.
Roy Newey  is Group Director A4E. He founded his
first business at just 22 years of age and built an enterprise over the next ten years that employed over 450
staff and turned over £5m. Roy took the decision to
sell his business and went on to become the Deputy
Chief Executive of Merseyside Training & Enterprise
Council (the forerunners for the Learning and Skills
Councils) and Business Link. Roy took up the role of
non-executive Director at A4e in 2000 and played a
significant role in developing A4e’s approach to delivering business support services under the Business
Link brand and is now leading A4e’s international de-

velopment. Roy played an integral role in the successful exportation of A4e’s welfare to work policy, liaising
with senior politicians and policy makers, as well as
local community groups and programme beneficiaries
in Israel, France, Germany and Poland. Roy is internationally recognised as an expert in the field of economic regeneration.
John Nurse  is the Superintendent of Prisons in the
Barbados Prison Service. he is a member of the Board
of ICPA.
Aniele Nwosu comes from Nigeria.
Jose Ogando is the Director of the Puerto Plata Correctional Centre for Rehabilitation.
Tola Ogundipe comes from Nigeria
Jose Patricio Patino  is the Mexican Federal Public
Safety Assistant Secretary.
Tim Payne Business Development, NEC Australia
Ken Pesso is the Probation Services Manager in San
Mateo County Probation Department.
Michal Petras  is a university educated employee of
the Department of Detention and Imprisonment of the
Czech Prison Service, where he is responsible for work
of educators, sentence planning, and risk and needs assessment. During 2004-2006 he was the coordinator
of the projects on the parole system run together with
the Probation and Mediation Service and partners from
the United Kingdom and Finland and on the preparation of release the offenders funded by the European
Social Fund.
Rob Platzbeecker  works for the Dutch Correctional
Agency where he is Director of the Prison Cluster Limburg-South, He is works full-time with the management
of the chain between prisons and municipalities.
Frank Porporino  has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology
from Queen’s University and has specialized for more
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knowledge to correctional and criminal justice practice. In 1998, he was awarded the American Correctional Association Lejins Award and in 2003 the International Community Corrections President’s Award
for his career contributions to research and program
development in the field of corrections. He is a Board
member of ICPA.
Jirí Pospíšil studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of West Bohemia in Plzen where he also obtained the degree of Doctor of Law. In 2000 he entered
politics and in 2002 he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
and was re-elected in 2006, and in the same year was
appointed the Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic.
Indira Ranamagar is a human rights worker and was
recently honored as one of the 50 most influential women in Nepal. She was born in eastern Nepal to a landless
poor family. As a young child, Indira was not given the
opportunity to go to school. But she was determined,
using sticks and the dusty earth outside her home to
learn to read and write. Indira’s determination and
passion for education finally got her admitted to Grade
5 at a nearby school. Since that day there has been no
turning back for Indira. She collected change from her
colleagues to buy kerosene for light in order to study
collectively while still in school. She finished first in
her class and later managed to continue her education
in a nearby town. She combined studies with domestic
work to earn the pennies to keep going. Indira became
a school teacher and later started literacy classes for
women in the village. In 2005 Indira started Junkiri, a
creative, alternative learning program for children who
suffer from histories of abuse, neglect and other experiences that impair their ability to learn in traditional
schools. Some also have learning disabilities. Junkiri
currently consists of two classrooms with 23 students,
most of whom live at the PA-Nepal home, and some
from the local community. To make sure village children do not experience the same deprivation she faced
as a child, Indira recently opened another school, Village Junkiri, in her home village. Village Junkiri offers
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a practical curriculum that includes reading, writing,
math, health, hygiene, and farming. Junkiri students
also learn to help others and teach what they learn to
their families and to the community. Both schools are
unique and serve as models for the kind of education
needed by many children in Nepal. In 2005, Indira
was awarded an Ashoka Fellowship for her work in the
Human Rights field. In 2006, Indira was named one of
the 50 most influential women in Nepal for her work
as an advocate for “the rights of the most vulnerable
groups of people.” Indira has been selected as a member of the National Project Consultant Committee of
the Department of Prison Management, and she is an
active member of the Network for Children, Prisoners
and Dependents. PA-Nepal and Junkiri receive extensive support within Nepal and internationally.
Denise M. Robinson is the president and CEO of Alvis House. She is recognized as an outstanding corrections practitioner. Robinson is a Commissioner for the
Commission on Accreditation for Corrections; serves
on the board of the International Association of Re-entry; is a past president of the International Community
Corrections Association (ICCA) and also serves as
the ICCA representative to the American Correctional
Association’s Delegate Assembly. She was recognized
as one of YWCA’s Women of Achievement in 2008 and
she has also received awards for her work in community corrections from state correctional associations.
Denise holds a Bachelor’s Degree from The Ohio State
University.
Persida V. Rueda-Acosta is the fourth and youngest
Chief Public Attorney in the Philipine Public Attorney’s
Office (PAO). She is an alumna of the University of the
East College of Law. On top of the many awards given to her by government offices and private groups in
the Philippines and abroad in 2004 she was given the
LINGKOD BAYAN AWARD, which is the HIGHEST
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE.
Her Gusi Peace Prize (Asian equivalent of Nobel Peace
Prize) and Asian Public Intellectuals (API) Senior Fellowship from the Nippon Foundation of Tokyo, Japan,
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aid, human rights, and world peace. She is internationally also acknowledged her expertise in free legal aid
and public service, hence the invitations as resource
person abroad.
James Ryan is Chief Executive of the Australian Capital Territory Corrective Services. He assumed this appointment in 1997. He was previously the Managing
Director of a private correctional company with custodial contracts in several Australian jurisdictions and
prior to that an assistant commissioner in NSW Corrective Service.
John Rynne  is a registered psychologist, member of
the Griffith University, Key Centre for Ethics, Law,
Justice, and Governance, and a lecturer in the Business School. He has an extensive corrections history
with operational and management experience. He completed his Ph.D. on prison privatization and its impact
on public sector reform in the School of Criminology at
Griffith University. His current research is in Aboriginal imprisonment and prison quality.
Robert Santana  graduated with honors from the
Faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, UASD; and
BA in Political Science. He has been Professor at the
Faculties of Law and Political Science, and Faculty of
Humanities in the areas of Political Development, History of Political Ideas, Philosophy and Politics in the
Dominican Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
since 1981. He was Founder Director of the National
Penitentiary School in the Attorney General’s Department and still heads the School. He is also a Member
of the Coordinating Unit for the implementation of the
Model Prison Management of the Dominican Republic.
Howard Sapers was appointed as Correctional Investigator of Canada in 2004. Previously, Mr. Sapers was
the Vice-Chairperson for the Prairie Region of the National Parole Board of Canada. From 2001-2003, he
held the position of Director of the Crime Prevention
Investment Fund at the Department of Justice, and

from 1993-2001, he served in the Alberta Legislative
Assembly as health critic, treasury critic and acting
leader of the Official Opposition. He was employed
by the John Howard Society of Alberta from 1982 to
1993, serving as the Society’s Provincial Executive Director for the last seven of those years. Mr. Sapers has
received numerous accreditations for his significant
contribution to the community-at-large and for his pursuit of social justice and social development.
Dr. Jayadev Sarangi is currently Prison Expert at the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional
Office for South Asia, is a serving civil servant with
Government of India on secondment to UNODC. He
has rendered 25 years of service in various capacities in
the Government of India and the United Nations. During his tenure as Executive Magistrate, Superintendent
of Prisons, DIG and acting head of Delhi prisons, he
has contributed to prison systems and management for
more than two decades. He is actively associated with
number of NGOs working in the fields of Crime prevention, Custodial Reform and Drug/HIV prevention.
In addition to his contribution to various workshops/
seminars/ trainings at National and International levels, he has a number of publications to his credit. He
has visited various prison systems in and around the
world and has been guest faculty at reputed Institutes.
He has facilitated number of training programmes in
countries of South Asia in the field of Prison Reforms,
Human Rights and prevention of Drugs and HIV leading to capacity building of more than 26,000 persons
in the prison community and rolling out of interventions in 26 prisons across South Asia. He holds a
Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, New
Delhi (thesis: “Factors Related to the Effectiveness
of Correctional Organizations”) and a Masters degree
in Sociology from the Department of Sociology, Delhi
School of Economics. Jayadev was the first UN Fellow
on Prison Reforms in the year 1995 at the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch in UN Vienna.
Martin Seddon  of East West Offender Management
has been working on various prison projects in Eastern
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Lesley Ann Van Selm is from South Africa.
Peter Severin is Chief Executive in the Department for
Correctional Services, Government of South Australia
Carol Shapiro is a nationally known innovator in the
field of criminal justice. Over the past 30 years, she
has devised numerous approaches to improving public safety and family well-being in the fields of drug
abuse, mental health, housing, and law enforcement.
As the Founder and President of Family Justice, a
national family-focused justice reform agency, Carol
serves as an advisor to many governmental and citizen
sector initiatives. Additionally, she provides technical
assistance and consulting services on policy, planning,
and implementation of social justice reform initiatives
to federal, state, and local governments, not-for-profit organizations, and the media. In 2001, Carol was
recognized as a social entrepreneur by being named
an Ashoka Innovator for the Public Fellow. In 2002,
Family Justice’s neighborhood family support center
La Bodega de la Familia, in partnership with the New
York State Division of Parole, was named a winner of
Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
Innovations in American Government Award. Carol
is also the recipient of the 2006 Maud Booth Correctional Services Award from Volunteers of America and
one of ten 2006 Woman to Watch Awards from Jewish
Women International.
Randy Shively is the Vice President of clinical services
at Alvis House. He has designed and implemented various clinical processes at the agency. Randy’s professional expertise is in the areas of substance abuse, sex
offender treatment, cognitive behavioral management,
and working with offenders who have developmental
disabilities. He holds a Bachelor’ s degree in Psychology from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Developmental Disabilities (MR) from The Ohio State
University. Randy has published a number of articles
about providing effective treatment services in community corrections settings and have made presentations
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Richard Sikani  is Commissioner of Corrections in
Papua New Guinea.
Milena Šimčáková  is a special pedagogue who has
been working with prisoners in the Prison OstravaHermanice for 12 years and her work concentrates on
special surveillance of mentally disordered prisoners.
She has participated in numerous projects in the field
of educational programs and ergo-therapy. She cooperates with the KIWANIS club, manages the textile dolls
making for children in hospitals and wood toys for kindergartens. She has also helped to arrange exhibitions
and international competitions of prison art.
Adam Široký  acquired his Bachelor degree in marketing and management in 2007 and since 2005; he
has been working for the Prison service of the Czech
Republic in the Remand Prison Praha-Ruzyne. For the
very first two years of his professional career he was
working as a prison guard with responsibility for the
security in the prison, at present he is a member of
the Judicial Guards that is responsible for security in
buildings of the Ministry of Justice, courts and state
attorney’s offices.
Pavla Skybská has been working for the Prison Service
of the Czech Republic since 2005 as a prison guard.
Gabriela Slováková graduated from Masaryk University in Brno in psychology and social science. She has
been working for the Prison Service for five years. She
was involved in the training of the prison staff and in
several international projects e.g. Teachers Teaching
in Prisons (TTIP) and others. As a member of a research department, she participated in several national
surveys. During her current Ph.D. studies at Masaryk
University, she focuses on the treatment of juvenile and
young offenders. At present, she works at the headquarters of the Czech Prison Service and is responsible
for international and public relations.
Isabelle Storme is a psychologist working as an advisor
with the Belgian Prison Service where she is involved
in the daily management of the Service’s psycho-social
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she was project leader for the new national government
evaluation system. She has considerable experience
in personnel and in Business Process re-engineering
systems.
Gary L. Sturgess, has been Executive Director of the
Serco Institute since January 2003, responsible for its
research and publication agenda. He is a prominent exponent of diversity and contestability in public services
and played a key role in the establishment of the Public
Services Strategy Board at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and the Services Forum of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia. He is former Cabinet
Secretary in the New South Wales state government
in Sydney, Australia, where he acquired a reputation
for promoting innovative reform and in 2005, he was
awarded the Order of Australia for services to government. Gary was a non-executive director of Serco
Group plc from 1993 until 2000, when he moved to the
UK and joined the company as a senior executive.
Antonín Sùva  is a head–teacher at the Institute of
Education of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic and he is involved in professional training of both
the uniformed and the civilian prison staff. He teaches
pedagogy, imprisonment and professional ethics to the
recruits and he leads specialized courses for professionals on human rights and supplementary pedagogical education. Within the framework of the cooperation
with public schools and universities, he lectures social
pathological phenomenon at the Technical University
in Liberec and basics of communication and rhetoric at
the University of Physical Education and Sports PALESTRA in Prague.
Mariusz Sztuka gained a Master of Arts at the Institute
of Education; Jagiellonian University, Cracow in 1992.
From 1992 to 1997 he was a correctional officer. In
1999 he gained his Ph.D. in Education at the Faculty
of Philosophy; Jagiellonian University, Cracow. His
thesis was on The Possibilities Of Self-Development
Of Prisoners - Members Of Mutual-Help Group. From
2002 – 2006 he was lecturer, Section of Correctional
Treatment, Institute of Education, Jagiellonian Univer-

sity, Cracow. He has over 20 publications on the issue
of social maladjustment and correctional treatment.
Simon Taylor  is Commercial Director for Kalyx Services where with responsibility for business development and all aspects of commercial and contract management.
Rien Timmer is CEO of the association Exodus Nederland. Exodus, founded by different christian pastors
of the prison-system in the Netherlands, developed a
program for former prisoners, focused on the issues
of housing, working, stimulation relations and motivation/inner awareness. Exodus nowadays has 280 payes
workers and 1600 volunteers, reaching thousands of
(ex) prisoners. Rien Timmer is a business economist.
After his study years and the Amsterdam Free University (1983-1989) he worked for a national employers
association (1989-1994), was manager of a private
company in social affairs (1994-1996), and was manager of an nationwide labour union (1996-2003). Since
2003 he has been Exodus’ CEO. Rien has published
various articles. Apart from his work for Exodus, he is
confidential advisor for the PGGM pensionfund.
Jens Tolstrup  is Regional Director Local Prisons,
Danish Department of Prisons and Probation. Recently
he completed four years as Executive Director Northern Territory Correctional Services, implementing reforms in both prisons and Community Corrections.
He has worked more than thirty years in the Danish
Correctional System, mainly in positions as Director
of open and closed prisons and at the same time doing
international work for the Council of Europe and the
Royal Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in, for example, Azerbaijan, Israel and South Africa. He has been a
member of ICPA since the foundation of this organisation and holds Masters of Political Science and Arts.
Herta Toth graduated from the Budapest University of
Economics in 1993. Between 1994 and 1998 she was
a volunteer worker at the NGO of NANE supporting
those women who suffer from domestic violence. In
2002 she got her MA in gender and cultural studies at

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the CEU, and enrolled in the PhD program of the Sociology and Social Anthropology Department of the CEU
in 2003. Her research interests are equal opportunity
policies and equal opportunities in organizations, domestic violence, work-life balance, and the connection
between prisons and social exclusion. She is currently
the Secretary of the Hungarian Women’s Lobby, member of the Hungarian Council for Women’s Representation, and works as the program officer of the Human
Rights and Governance Grants Program at the Open
Society Institute. Herta was the lead researcher in the
comparative research project on Women, Integration
and Prison: Analysis of the Processes of Socio-Labour
Integration of Women Prisoners in Europe at the CPS
between 2002 and 2005.
Susan K. Urahn  is managing director of Pew Center
on the States at The Pew Charitable Trusts. Sue oversees the Trusts’ work in early education, research and
development, and other state-based initiatives, such
as government performance, corrections and election
reform. Sue began her tenure at The Pew Charitable
Trusts in 1994 as a program officer in the Planning and
Evaluation department. She became director in April
1997. During her tenure, Sue and her staff developed
and introduced new methodologies to measure and
strengthen the effectiveness of the Trusts’ approach to
results-focused strategic philanthropy. She became director of the Education program in 2000. Over the next
seven years the program evolved to include other state
policy work, and in 2007, it was renamed Pew Center
on the States to reflect its broadened focus. Currently,
Sue manages a portfolio that advances policy solutions
at the state level and has an annual budget of $40 million. Sue joined the Trusts with more than a decade
of experience in educational evaluation and policy research. She arrived from the Research Department of
the Minnesota House of Representatives, where she
staffed the House Education Committee and Education Finance Division and conducted policy analyses
of many education programs, including open enrollment, postsecondary enrollment options, and charter
schools. In addition to her legislative experience, Sue
conducted higher education policy research at the Uni30

versity of Minnesota. She has authored several technical reports on educational programs and issues. Sue
holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a doctorate
in education policy and administration from the University of Minnesota.
Evelyne F. Vallières  professor at Télé-université
(Université du Québec in Montréal) since 1999. She
worked as a research manager for Correctional Service
of Canada in 1992 and 1993. She has been working for
the last three years with other researchers from France,
South Africa and Ivory Coast on risk behaviours related to STI and HIV among ex-offenders.
Martin Váòa graduated as a special pedagogue and has
been working for the Prison Service for more than 24
years. At present, he is the Director of the Vocational
Training Centre of the Prison Service. During years
2002 – 2004, he has been the Deputy Project Leader
of the Phare project Enhancement of the Professional
Level of the Czech Prison Service organized in cooperation with the Dutch Prison Service. He is a member of
the European Prison Education Association (EPEA).
He has been active in international penitentiary projects in Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Jaime Vilanova  works for the Direction de
l’Administration Penitentiaire in Haiti, which is part of
the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
Daniela Voláková  graduated from Masaryk University in Brno as a Master of Psychology in 2007. She
has been working for the Prison Service of the Czech
Republic as a psychologist since August 2007. She is
involved in the research of the long- term users of cannabis drugs.
Tineke de Waele is a criminologist who works for the
Belgian Prison Service where she is a prison governor.
She has considerable experience in managing prisons
and was also recently involved in national government
evaluation programme.
Elizabeth White  is the Executive Director of the St.
Leonard’s Society of Canada, a position she has held

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since 1996. The Society is the policy and collaborative forum for affiliate agencies which have provided an
innovative range of community corrections and crime
prevention programs for more than 40 years. The Society has led the country in designing and implementing programs and services for life sentenced persons
both inside of prison and on parole. She is a graduate
of Windsor Law School, called to the Ontario Bar in
1980 and spent 10 years in private practise in Toronto. She served as Executive Director of the Council
of Elizabeth Fry Societies in Ontario from 1989-1995.
During that time, she co-chaired the Ontario Correctional Service Task Force on Women’s Issues. Their
report, “Women’s Voices, Women’s Choices was issued
in 1995. Elizabeth sits on the Boards of the National
Associations Active in Criminal Justice and the Canadian Criminal Justice Association and is a member of the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and
Corrections Advisory Committee and the Lifeline National Sterring Group. She has participated in various
working groups of the Correctional Service of Canada,
particularly those concerning community correctional
centres and halfway houses. A present preoccupation
is on collaborative research on the effectiveness of
halfway houses and community interventions for the
mentally disordered. She is a member of the International Community Corrections Association and recipient of its President’s Award.
Claire Wiggins is Head of MAPPA/Sex Offenders Section. Claire Wiggins has a BA (Hons) in Social Administration, a MSc (Social Work) and a Certificate
in Qualification of Social Work. She has worked in
the criminal justice system in both the statutory and
voluntary sector for 20 years. She has undertaken research in Czechoslovakia into the treatment of drug users in the Criminal Justice system and worked in the
drug treatment sector as a practitioner for a number of
years. Claire worked as the standards and accreditation manager at the National Treatment Agency for two
years. The main part of her career, however has been
with the probation service as a practitioner, middle and
senior manager. She was seconded to the then NPD
in 1998 to develop a suite of accredited programmes

including those for drug users, sex offenders and drink
drivers. Claire returned to NPD as head of the intensive interventions team, where she had responsibility
for drugs, alcohol, young adult offenders, street crime,
persistent and other priority offenders and the Intensive Control and Change programme. She has recently
moved to the NOMS Public Protection Unit where she
is responsible for Domestic Abuse, MAPPA and management of sexual offenders.
Diane Williams was named President of Safer Foundation in February 1996. The Safer Foundation is one of
the nation’s largest private non-profit providers of social
services, education programs and employment training
and placement exclusively targeting people with criminal records. Under her leadership the Safer Foundation
has incorporated the “What Works” principles adopting evidence based program designs and evaluations.
Under contract with the Illinois Department of Corrections, Safer manages two large adult transition centers
with a total of 550 beds. University research acknowledges the success of these programs through low recidivism rates—Safer’s employment program boasts a
27-percentage point differential when compared with
the same year Illinois State prison releases. Diane Williams has an undergraduate degree in Education. She
also has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. She has over 20 years
of management experience in the telecommunications
industry. Since her appointment to the Safer Foundation, Ms. Williams has served in consulting roles for
the U.S. Department of Labor, Department of Justice,
Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Council
of State Governments Re-entry Initiative and the National Treatment Plan Criminal Justice Workgroup of
the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. She is a
member of the National Institute of Corrections Advisory Board, the Illinois Workforce Investment Board,
the Governor’s Statewide Task Force on Reentry and
is frequently called upon by The Urban Institute and
other agencies to lead and participate in re-entry programs and planning.

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Anita Wilson is a prison ethnographer who has studied the nuances of ‘everyday’ prison life in Europe and
North America for over 16 years. While grounded in
academic research, her worked has been taken forward
and applied in practical ways to prison education, staff
training, and the use of the creative arts in prison. She
has a particular interest in how the built environment
of incarceration impacts on the daily lives of those who
live and work in prisons. In 2002, her training pack
‘Working with Women in Custody: Multi-Disciplinary Training for Custodial and Non-Custodial Staff ’
was given the ICPA Management and Staff Training
Award.
Malene Windfeldt  is a psychologist whose work involves educating and supervising the facilitators and
program design.
Ed Wozniak is the Executive Director of ICPA. In addition to his role with ICPA, he works with the Scottish
Prison Service (SPS) where he previously had responsibility for its research, statistics and business performance functions. Within SPS he retains responsibility
for SPS’s international relations. He is Secretary to
the International Roundtable for Correctional Excellence and Chair of its Research Taskforce.
Andreas Wullen is manager of Business and Security
Systems at ACTCS, Australia
Ali Akbar Yassaghi is Head of Iran Prisons Organization. He is a member of the Supreme Court of Iran
and Head of Khorasan Province Justice Department.
He holds an MA in Management and Education in the
field of Jurisprudence, Persian and Arabic literature,
philosophy and logic.

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Prison Visits

Prison Jiøice

Organizational Hints
You are not allowed to take mobile phones, weapons
(including knives), alcohol and medicines – neither
pills nor liquid – into the prison.
You are allowed to keep a camera, however you are not
allowed to take pictures of prisoners and/or of any security equipment. We recommend consulting your responsible person before taking any pictures.
Do not forget to keep your ID document, the number of
which you put on the Prison Tour Registration Form!
Do not forget to wear the ICPA conference tag with
your name!
In case you breach any of these instructions the security personnel of the prison are authorized to take away
the illicit articles (at departure you will receive them
back), or even prevent your entrance into the prison.
Details of the prison visits are set out below. Delegates
must register - at the Conference Registration Desk for the route of their choice.
All buses will leave promptly at 13:15.

The Jiøice Prison is located in the village of the same
name in the Nymburk district east of Prague. It came
into being as a result of the reconstruction of army barracks in the former military area. It dates to the year
1994 and is designated as a medium security prison
with high security unit for adult male convicts. It has
an accommodation capacity of 602, of which 120 are
in the medium security part of the prison. Within the
prison, a centre for escort service has been established.
More than 310 persons are employed by the prison, of
which almost 200 are members of the prison and judicial guard.
The bus going to the prison Jiøice will depart from the
Diplomat Hotel at 13:15 (the journey takes about an
hour) and the maximum number of visitors is limited
to 30; therefore, in case of interest make your visit registration at the ICPA information booth in time.

Please be on time.

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The Remand Prison Litomìøice

The Prison Øepy

Litomìøice Remand Prison is celebrating its 100 years
anniversary. It was built in the years 1907 - 1908 as a
regional house of detention. It currently operates as a
remand prison for male and female detainees, including juveniles, for the District Courts, particularly in
the North Bohemia Region. The prison also receives
medium security convicts. The total accommodation
capacity of the prison is 358 places, of which 244 are
intended for persons on remand and 89 for convicts.
Inmates are accommodated in common dormitories
containing an average of 3 beds each, the largest containing 5 beds. There are five single-bed and 95 twobedded rooms.

A branch of Remand Prison Praha - Ruzynì in Øepy is
an imprisonment unit for minimum and medium security female convicts. The accommodation capacity is 56
places. The imprisonment unit is located in the House
of St. Charles Borromeo. It came to life upon the initiative of the Congregation of Sisters of the Order of St.
Charles Borromeo, who followed the tradition from the
19th century when the House hosted a penitentiary
for female convicts. Thus, there is a monastery, a bed
section for long-time patients, and a unit for female
prisoners. Female convicts have a wide choice of work
inside and outside the prison, from cleaning to the care
of patients in the hospital. Such care can be effectuated
by female convicts who passed the so-called „Sanitary
Course of St. Zdislava“, which is unique in the whole
Europe. The form of treating female convicts through
the care for powerless patients is very humane and
helps women seek jobs in an easier way after returning
to society.

The bus going to the remand prison Litomerice will
depart from the Diplomat Hotel at 13:15 (the journey
takes about an hour) and the maximum number of visitors is limited to 40; therefore, in case of interest make
your visit registration at the ICPA information booth
in time.

The bus going to the prison Øepy will depart from the
Diplomat Hotel at 13:15 (the journey takes about half
an hour) and the maximum number of visitors is limited to 30; therefore, in case of interest make your visit
registration at the ICPA information booth in time.

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Prison Svìtlá nad Sázavou

The prison is located in the picturesque countryside
of the Czech-Moravian Highlands, in the north-western part of the town of Svìtlá nad Sázavou. The site
of the prison buildings originally served as an openair school. The whole complex was given over to the
Prison Service of the Czech Republic at the beginning
of 2000. The aim was to build a modern penal facility
for convicted females. Still in 2000, several buildings
underwent partial reconstruction and, on 6 November
2000, the first female convicts were admitted to medium security imprisonment. Also, women sentenced
to a high security prison were gradually placed there.
The whole reconstruction process was completed in
the first half of 2004, increasing the prison’s original
accommodation capacity from 200 to 520 places. At
present there are 134 dormitories available, the largest of which have five beds. Single bedrooms are only
available in the specialised unit for the imprisonment
of women with children aged up to 3 years.
The bus going to the prison Svìtlá nad Sázavou will
depart from the Diplomat Hotel at 13:15 (the journey
takes about two hours) and the maximum number of
visitors is limited to 40; therefore, in case of interest
make your visit registration at the ICPA information
booth in time.
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The Museum & Memorial of the
PSCR Remand Prison Praha Pankrác

The history the Museum & Memorial of the Prison
Service begins in 1994 when a historical exhibition
was arranged on the occasion of the first international
conference in Kromìøiž. The exhibition was found successful and the exhibits were moved to the former death
row from the Nazi period in the remand prison PraguePankrac. After the exhibition rooms were reconstructed and many new exhibits brought in the Museum &
Memorial was officially opened in 1995. Besides rich
historic picture documentation and numerous historic
exhibits and uniforms, there is also one historic cell
which dates to the beginning of the 20th century and
the original guillotine from the period when the Nazi
Gestapo governed Pankrác prison.
The bus going to the Museum & Memorial of the PSCR
will depart from the Diplomat Hotel at 13:15 (the journey takes about half an hour) and the maximum number of visitors is limited to 35; therefore, in case of
interest make your visit registration at the ICPA information booth in time.

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Offender Management
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Care & Justice Services provide a range of
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We seek to normalise prison conditions as far as
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The Prison and Probation Service
must enforce the punishments with the
requisite control and security and must
at the same time support and motivate
the offenders to live law-abiding lives
by assisting their personal and social
development. These two facets of the
primary task are complementary and are
equally important.

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Act Corrective
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Public Federal
Service of Justice

AUSTRALIA

BELGIUM

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www.just.fgov.be

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The BIOSENS® system is the optimum equipment for
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Dutch National
Agency of
Correctional
Institutions
THE NETHERLANDS
www.dji.nl

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Safer Foundation
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International Corrections & Prison
Association.

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Justice and Police
NORWAY
www.kriminalomsorgen.no

For over 35 years, the Safer Foundation
has been providing services to help
individuals with a criminal record
successfully return to the community.
Volunteers are welcome to assist Safer
in providing these services which
include: pre-employment training,
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treatment services. Safer helps change
lives and attitudes. Reducing crime
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Scottish Prison
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SCOTLAND
www.sps.gov.uk

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National Prison
Administration
Ministry of Justice

Swedish Prison
and Probation
Administration

Republic of Slovenia

SWEDEN
www.kriminalvarden.se

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BRONZE MEMBERS

Correctional Service of Hong Kong
South Africa Department of Correctional Services
Department of Justice - Tasmania
Fuhrungsakademie fur den Justizvollzug
Her Majesty’s Prisons Glendairy Prison
Japanese Correctional Association
MTC - Management and Training Corporation
Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
Prison Fellowship International
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

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State
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Rosser International
Singapore Prison Service
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Volunteers Of America - Delaware Valley
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Acknowledgements
The International Corrections and Prisons Association
wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the following individuals to the organization and preparation of
this conference. Their efforts have been tireless and
without them this event would not have been possible.
While we would like to extend our thanks to all the
staff of the Prison Service of the Czech Republic. We
would wish to extend a special thanks to the following
organizers:
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Patrik Bálek
Marie Bíbrová
Robert Blanda
Tomáš Candra
Dušan Hájek
Robert Káčer
Martina Kadlecová
Lukáš Kameník
Dana Klabíková
Lucie Klemanová
Antonín Krahulec
Monika Králová
Ludmila Kurdíková
Ivan Matìjíček
Alexandra Matiašová
Roman Mézl
Otakar Michl
Karel Neuvirt
Miroslav Orálek
José Panamá
David Páv
Jaroslav Pilát
Hana Podzemská
Iva Prudlová
Markéta Prunerová
Eva Rùžičková
Gabriela Slováková
Marie Sommerová
Daniel Trávníček

We would also wish to recognize the following individuals and organizations:
Program Committee
- Bob Goble
- Frank Porporino
- Ed Wozniak
Organizing Committee (ICPA)
- Fraser Bryans
- Cassandra Johnson
- Ed Wozniak
Graphic Design
- Cassandra Johnson
Website
- SharedBase Ltd.
Venue
- Jiøi Škarka, Diplomat Hotel-Prague
Companion Program
- Pragotur

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