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Rehabilitation perspectives for irregular migrants: Belgium, England&Wales, Greece and the Netherlands

01 Jan 2012-European journal of probation-Vol. 4, Iss: 3, pp 1-3
About: This article is published in European journal of probation.The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2 citations till now.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, Bruckmuller and Caenazzo show that there is a pan-European rejection of the death penalty and a European approach to prisoners' rights, and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture as a strong monitoring body and also share the idea that imprisonment must be used as ultima ratio.
Abstract: Associate authors: Karin Bruckmuller, Luciana Caenazzo, Rob Canton, Algimantas Cepas, Berit Johnsen, Sonja Snacken, George Mair, Sandra Scicluna, Luisa Ravagnani and Dirk van Zyl Smit We now have evidence that there is a specifically European approach to key aspects of punishment. There is a pan-European rejection of the death penalty a European approach to prisoners’ rights, and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture as a strong monitoring body and we also share the idea that imprisonment must be used as ultima ratio (van Zyl Smit and Snacken, 2009). What we want to know is whether this approach extends to punishment and supervi- sion enforced outside prisons — that is, to community sanctions as sentences and supervision measures before or instead of trial.

12 citations

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Jelmer Brouwer1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse penal policies in the Netherlands vis-a-vis foreign national prisoners, including the establishment of the crimmigration prison, and conclude that the limited opportunities to work on rehabilitation means that prison officers struggle to find meaning and satisfaction in their work.
Abstract: In recent years there has been growing attention for so-called crimmigration prisons: all-foreign prisons with immigration staff embedded where not rehabilitation, but deportation is the ultimate aim. Following Norway and the United Kingdom, since 2014 the Netherlands is another country with such a prison. This article analyses penal policies in the Netherlands vis-a-vis foreign national prisoners, including the establishment of the crimmigration prison. Drawing on extensive empirical fieldwork in the crimmigration prison, it subsequently examines how this is experienced and understood by both prison officers and foreign national officers. The results show that the limited opportunities to work on rehabilitation means that prison officers struggle to find meaning and satisfaction in their work. For prisoners, experiences in the crimmigration prison strongly depend on their subjective identity and attachment to the Netherlands. Whereas the lack of meaningful activities and remote location of the prison considerably add to the pains they experience, specific elements of the prison also help to mitigate some of the pains foreign national prisoners most commonly experience, especially isolation and uncertainty. The article finishes by a discussion about what this says about how the state should treat individuals it seeks to both punish and deport.

10 citations