Book RecommendationsEducation in Prison, Council of Europe Recommendation, No. R (89) 12 Click to download "Education in Prison", Council of Europe Recommendation, No. R (89) 12This report of the Select Committee of Experts on Education in Prison, consisting of recommendations and an explanatory memorandum, derives from a decision (CDPC/74/060484) of the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) in 1984 to establish the select committee. There are wide differences in culture and in educational systems between the countries of the Council of Europe. Prison systems also vary greatly, as does the definition of what constitutes prison education within the administration of prisons. However, despite all these differences, a number of generalizations can be made in relation to prison education. This report, in accordance with its terms of reference, takes prison education in its wide sense to include library services, vocational education, cultural activities, social education, physical education (PE) and sports, as well as the academic subjects which are included in narrower concepts of education.
- by The European Council; 1990
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Education behind bars: international comparisons Prisons are, by definition, closed, and the sense of confinement can affect staff as much as inmates. Not only is the work of educators in prisons at risk of being at best ignored, at worst disparaged, by the public at large; but also its closed institutional nature has often resulted in the separation from the mainstream of adult education.
In reality many of the initiatives highlighted in recent years – the development of basic skills, the urgency of vocational education and its linkage to an element of social education, special programmes for the educationally disadvantaged, for example – have been the bread-and-butter of prison educators for many years. This sector has a wealth of expertise to offer a definitive statement; to catch a variety of interested eyes rather than allow strict comparisons to be made.
Most of the chapters are concerned with a hardening of public attitudes towards the treatment of prisoners. The rehabilitative services in prisons would seem to have taken more than their fair share of the international pulling back from the expenditure of public money, and it is difficult to imagine private purses being opened for this purpose: there is not a great deal of publicity or glamour to be found within prisons.
What emerges from this book is a sense of the writers’ enthusiasm, whether it comes from their sense of social duty, a personal sense of outrage, a professional sense that students should be looked after, or a liberal instinct for human rights.
Readership: policy-makers and providers of prison and adult education. - Prof. William Forster OBE (ed.)
- ISBN 1 86201 020 X
- 1998
- Price €35, link to shop
Nordic Prison Education - A lifelong learning perspective The purpose of the project Education, Training and Prison and Probation Service in a Lifelong Learning Perspective, a Nordic Study of Structures and Models, is to provide a concise, overall and updated comparative view of education and training in prisons in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, as well as a brief description of the situation in Iceland. Based on these observations, general analyses of strengths and weaknesses were then made in order to identify a common basis for progress in the field. The project group has put forward joint Nordic recommendations for improvements. The results and recommendations can also be applied to the Adjacent Areas, and to other countries in their efforts to develop their prison education systems.
- Publisher Nordic Council
- ISBN 92-893-1147-9
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PRISON(ER) EDUCATION  major collection of writings about the transforming power of education in British prisons. Edited by two of the leading experts on prison education in the UK - Professor David Wilson of the University of Central England (and a former prison governor), and Dr Anne Reuss of the University of Abertay (who previously taught at HMP Full Sutton) - this book is a collection of essays written by leading prison education practitioners, academics and prisoners. Chapters include new work on how to evaluate the "success" of education within prison by Dr Ray Pawson of Leeds University, and by Stephen Duguid of Simon Fraser University in Canada. A serving life sentenced prisoner describes the impact of education on his time inside, and two of the UK's leading prison educationalists at HMP Whitemoor describe their work and it's power to transform. New research from the archives of the Prisoners Education Trust - a long-time supporter of education in prisons - is presented by Emma Hughes a doctoral student at UCE. This book is a major challenge to penal policy-makers to accept the value of education - beyond "basic skills", and at a time when regimes have come to be dominated by cognitive thinking skills courses. Weaving anecdote with solid research and evaluation, the book presents a comprehensive account of education inside prisons. At the very heart of it lies the question: "who is prison(er) education for - prison or prisoner?"
- David Wilson & Anne Reuss (Eds)
- Waterside Press; ISBN: 1872870902
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European Prison Rules
This book deals with the prison rules that are in effect in Europe and examines in particular all aspects of imprisonment and prisons such as the use of force, the selection of prison staff and the protection of prisoners' human rights. Crime policy in Europe 
Dealing with criminal policy in the Member States of the Council of Europe, this book concentrates on examples of promising prac-tices in specific countries relating to crime prevention, mediation and other community sanctions, the prison system and criminal procedure.
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