Subject: World prison stats available on-line
From: bodega@sprintmail.com
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 07:47:00 CDT
With thanks due to ICPS (and Kenny, my fish-loving anthropologist
friend, who passed this along...)
Jeanne Flavin
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>Subject: [environmentaljournalists] First world-wide prison statistics
>From: International Centre for Prison Studies <icps@kcl.ac.uk>
>
>PRESS RELEASE; 27 September 2000
>
>## The International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King's College
London
>today (28 September 2000) launches a website providing the latest
prison
>statistics from around the world.
>
>The World Prison Brief Online is the first online resource to offer a
>comprehensive database of all relevant information on the prison
systems of
>over 200 countries.
>
>Information available on the website includes:
>
>· Prison population of each country
>
>· The imprisonment rate of each country (per 100,000 of the national
>population)
>
>· Statistics reflecting the numbers of unsentenced prisoners, juveniles
and
>women in prison
>
>· A database of contacts for penal agencies world-wide
>
>This service, which is supplied free of charge by the ICPS, has a
>user-friendly visual map interface. The world maps are colour-coded
>according to each country's prison population rate.
>Data has been collected by a team of researchers headed by Roy
Walmsley, of
>the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, an
expert
>on world prison populations. The database will be updated on a regular
basis.
>
>Dr Andrew Coyle, Director of ICPS said: "The World Prison Brief Online
>provides a guide to the use of imprisonment around the world. Using
>official statistics, it is designed to be of use to practitioners and
>academics alike. The World Brief provides information on prison
>populations and imprisonment rates from all regions of the world, as
well
>as the contact details for prison administrations. We expect this
unique
>service to establish itself quickly as the leading online resource for
>information on the world's prison systems".
>
>The service will be launched by Professor Nils Christie of Oslo
University,
>a world expert on prisons, at 5pm on Thursday 28 September 2000 at the
ICPS
>offices at 75 York Road, London SE1 7AW.
>
>Once launched, the World Prison Brief Online can be found at
>http://www.prisonstudies.org/
>
>For more information please contact Anton Shelupanov at the ICPS on 020
>7401 2559 or email: icps@kcl.ac.uk.
>
>ends
>Note to editors
>
>King's College London
>King's College London is one of the two oldest and largest Colleges of
the
>University of London with over 12,200 undergraduate and nearly 4,100
>postgraduate students in ten schools of study. Recent mergers have
created
>a new King's which retains the former College's multi-faculty nature,
and
>encompasses the Institute of Psychiatry and Guy's, King's and St
Thomas'
>Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.
>
>The International Centre for Prison Studies
>
>The International Centre for Prison Studies is the first centre of its
kind
>in the world. It is devoted exclusively to the study of imprisonment,
the
>application of international rules and norms relating to imprisonment,
best
>practice in decent and humane prison management and the development of
>alternatives to imprisonment in a world-wide basis. It was set up in
1997
>within the prestigious School of Law at King's College London. In
addition
>to its policy-related research, it is involved in a number of practical
>projects in countries such as India, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.
>
>International Centre for Prison Studies
>8th Floor, 75-79 York Road
>London SE1 7AW
>Tel: +44 (0)171 401 2559
>Fax: + 44 (0)171 401 2577
>http://www.prisonstudies.org
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