HRIC develops monitoring tools to inform prison oversight

11 April 2017

The Human Rights Implementation Centre (Bristol, UK) and the Penal Reform International, South Caucasus Regional Office (Tbilisi, Georgia), with financial support from the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account of the University of Bristol, have produced a concise manual which aims to help monitor the wellbeing of four vulnerable groups in prison.

Dr Elina Steinerte, a Research Fellow at the Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRIC), travelled to Tbilisi in Georgia to take part in a roundtable on 20 February 2017, with Georgian and Armenian National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs).

This roundtable was the concluding event of a project through which four sets of monitoring tools were developed for the use of the NPMs. Each tool is aimed at one of four vulnerable groups in prison: the LGBTI prisoners; older prisoners; prisoners with disabilities; and foreign national prisoners.

Further information

For further information and access to the monitoring tools, see the HRIC's Monitoring Tools.