VSO Needs Probation Staff
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059904600328 |
| Published date | 01 September 1999 |
| Author | Nadir Ehsan |
| Date | 01 September 1999 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Peach, C. (Ed) (1996) Introduction to:
Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)
Ethnicity in the 1991 Census, Vol. 2: The
stated that as many as 20,000 prisoners
Ethnic Minority Populations of Great
could be eligible for probation in Punjab if
Britain. London. ONS/HMSO.
a more effective Probation Service was
available.
Dr. Kamaldeep Bhui
Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Trust
Similarly, in the Caribbean problems
such
and
as
Honorary Senior Lecturer,
drugs related crime by juveniles is
Institute of Psychiatry
creating havoc within penal systems.
Prisons are bursting at the seams with
hugely overcrowded populations, lack of
VSO
Needs Probation Staff
effective rehabilitation programmes and
lack of
Dear Editor,
prison staff training. Such
conditions fall far short of UN
and
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), Penal
regional standards.
Reform International, the International
Centre for Prison Studies - University of
Though the focus of the programme to
London and the Prison &
Probation
date has been ’Probation Development’ we
Service
do not
are working in partnership to
anticipate it to be solely so. We are
deliver penal reform
currently in the
programmes in Asia,
process of recruiting
Africa and the Caribbean. This
probation officers for a number of projects
secondments
around the world and will continue to do
programmes will allow
professionals such
so. We
as
hope to be able to send the
probation/community service officers from
probation officers to the projects in
the criminal justice sectors to work
February 2000. The experts will be
alongside
selected on the basis of
counterparts in the
practical
aforementioned regions of the world.
experience and personal qualities.
In recent
The focus of these
years it has dawned upon
projects is juvenile
criminal justice professionals, penal
justice and community service, and
reform activists, the NGO
community and
developing the capacity of existing
policy-makers in developing countries that
services...
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