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Resources for Working with FNPP in Europe

E-Learning Module on Managing Foreign National Prisoners

To access the E-Learning Module on Managing Foreign National Prisoners please click here.

You have been directed to this page as you clicked on one of the links contained in the E-Learning Module. You will find the specific reference you have been directed to in the table below, related to the chapter & slide you were studying. There is also other useful information on this page about working with foreign national prisoners and foreign national offenders to support your E-Learning.

You may also access all this information and more by going onto the Course page of the E-Learning Module available immediately before you click on the ‘SCORM package box to enter/start on the E-Learning’.

The information and resources found here will also be of interest to others working with and responsible for foreign national prisoners but not taking the ‘Managing Foreign National Prisoners E-Learning Module’ – though we would recommend that you do!

Taking the Managing Foreign National Prisoners E-Learning Module and clicked on “Resources for Working with Foreign National Prisoners in Europe”? 

Below is the information related to your specific search.

Click here to view the information related to your specific search.

Key information

• Organisations in Europe working with their nationals imprisoned abroad. There are a small number of organisations in European countries who provide services to their nationals imprisoned abroad and their families. Several of these organisations are members of the EuroPris & CEP Foreign Nationals in Prison & Probation Network, contact secretariat@europris.org

Click here to see detailed information on these organisations

• Organisations in Europe working with foreign national in Prison and on Probation in their country. There are a number of organisations in European countries, both statutory and voluntary, who work with foreign national prisoners in custody and in the community in their country. If you are aware of additional organisations not included in this table, please let us know for inclusion, secretariat@europris.org

Click here to see the list of different organisations.

• ‘Good Practice Examples of Working with Foreign National Prisoners’.  The examples provided by prison services and individual prisons from across Europe, are split into 6 divisions which, except for ’02 Sentencing’, correspond to the Chapters in the E-Learning Module.

Click here to see the “Good Practice Manual of Working with Foreign National Prisoners August 2018”.

Other information

There are a small number of documents/files/links available, which relate to chapters in the Managing Foreign National Prisoners E-Learning. Below you can find all these documents/files/links relating to the specific chapter of the e-module.

Chapter 1 – Introduction

• FPs, general background in Europe; Foreigners in European Prisons: Edited by AM van Kalmthout, FBAM Hofstee-van der Meulen, F Dunkel (published 2007)
• Understanding the experiences of foreign prisoners and Immigration detainees: Issues of coherence and legitimacy. Hindpal Singh Bhui. An academic thesis, Department of Law, Lancaster University 2014
• Prison Service Journal (UK) January 2013 No. 205 Special Edition Migration, Nationality & Detention
• HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Foreign national prisoners: a thematic review, United Kingdom, July 2006
• EU Foreign Prisoners Project
• European Prison Rules
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (CPT): Extracts from the 7th General Report [CPT/Inf(97) 10], Foreign nationals detained under aliens legislation, The CPT standards, “Substantive” sections of the CPT’s General Reports, 2006
• Council of Europe;  CoE Multilateral meeting on foreign prisoners Strasbourg 20 -21 April 2017
• Council of Europe; 17th Conference of Directors of Prison Administration (CDAP) ‘Foreign prisoners’
• United Nations; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Handbook on Prisoners with Special Needs Chapter 4, pages 79-98

Chapter 2 – Effective Communication

Pictionary by Femke Hofstee van der Meulen: The Dutch experience – Innovating practice to support foreign national prisoners

Chapter 3 – Prison Regime Improvement 

Chapter 4 – Contact with the outside world

International Committee of the Red Cross https://www.icrc.org/en/what-we-do/restoring-family-links

Chapter 5 – Resettlement and Rehabilitation issues 

• Organisations who assist their nationals imprisoned abroad Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas https://www.icpo.ie/preparing-for-release/
• Planning for resettlement. Pilot project for foreign inmates in Kongsvinger Prison 2016 Kristin Opaas Haugli
• Research Report Lucy Slade, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 2015 Foreign National Prisoners; best practice in prison and resettlement – Lucy Slade 2015
• List of European Groups who provide services to their nationals imprisoned abroad; August 2018
• Resettlement following imprisonment abroad; link with the ICPO https://www.icpo.ie/preparing-for-release/
• Family Reconnection Service, International Committee of the Red Cross; https://www.icrc.org/en/what-we-do/restoring-family-links
• The Salvation Army International – https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/home

Chapter 6 – Staff matters 

Promising Practice; Foreign Prison Orderlies

Reference: Bhui, H.S., Going the Distance: Developing Effective Policy and Practice with Foreign National Prisoners”, Prison Reform Trust, London, 2004

Chapter 7 – Final Test

Printing Slides of ‘Managing Foreign National Prisoners E-Learning Module’: there you can have access to every slide in the E-Learning Module, by obtaining the screenshots.

Click here to download the slides of the E-Learning Module.

Thanks to; the ‘Managing Foreign National Prisoners’ Module is a collaborative project between the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Education For Legal Professionals HELP Programme, EuroPris, Dr. Roisin Mulgrew of the University of Nottingham School of Law and Isabelle Storme of the Belgium Prison Service. Many thanks to them all for the time and resources they have put into this initiative.