In the table of recommendations and practices below, each Article of the Council of Europe Recommendation 2012 (12) on Foreign Prisoners is included. For each of these Articles, information is collected from European Prison Services giving inspiration to its members and providing practices that support the implementation of the Recommendation. The table also contains references to the practice being a national, local or regional initiative, the legal basis and budget sources.
The table can be searched by country and by Article of the Recommendation.
Countries that are not yet included are invited to submit their data and send them to [email protected].
Foreign National Prisoners Picture Dictionary – ‘Picture it in Prison’.
Difficulties stemming from a prisoner’s ability to speak the primary language of their prison is an obstacle in most prisons holding foreign prisoners and immigration detainees.
A pocket-size booklet ‘Picture it in Prison’ has been developed for foreign national prisoners and prison staff to overcome such language obstacles. The booklet consists of over 450 pictures which are classified per theme and translations of sixty basic words and sentences in twenty frequently spoken languages in prison. These languages are: English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Russian, German, Turkish, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, Albanese, Greek, Japanese, Swedish, Swahili, Persian, Hindi and Polish.
Contact Prison Watch via [email protected] for more information and a download of the copyright version of the booklet. The booklet (72 pages) can be ordered via [email protected] for € 6 (excluding 6% VAT and postal costs). For large orders (over 2.000) it is possible to add the logo of the prison service / organisation on the reverse side of the cover.
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Foreign National Prisoners Picture Dictionary – ‘Picture it in Prison’.
Difficulties stemming from a prisoner’s ability to speak the primary language of their prison is an obstacle in most prisons holding foreign prisoners and immigration detainees.
A pocket-size booklet ‘Picture it in Prison’ has been developed for foreign national prisoners and prison staff to overcome such language obstacles. The booklet consists of over 450 pictures which are classified per theme and translations of sixty basic words and sentences in twenty frequently spoken languages in prison. These languages are: English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Russian, German, Turkish, Romanian, Italian, Dutch, Albanese, Greek, Japanese, Swedish, Swahili, Persian, Hindi and Polish.
Contact Prison Watch via [email protected] for more information and a download of the copyright version of the booklet. The booklet (72 pages) can be ordered via [email protected] for € 6 (excluding 6% VAT and postal costs). For large orders (over 2.000) it is possible to add the logo of the prison service / organisation on the reverse side of the cover.