Conference speakers and participants will include
high-level representatives from the range of stakeholder groups,
including policymakers, top correctional administrators, prison
monitors, human rights advocates, attorneys, journalists, and scholars.
Among our distinguished experts on models of prison
oversight will be:
Dr.
Silvia Casale, President of the Council of Europe’s
Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Inhumane and Degrading
Treatment of Prisoners (CPT)
Dr.
Andrew Coyle, Founding Director of the International
Centre for Prison Studies and Professor of Prison Studies, Kings
College, London; former senior level correctional administrator
for the prison services of the United Kingdom; expert on penal matters
for the United Nations and the Council of Europe
Baroness
Vivien Stern, Honorary President, Penal
Reform International, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre
for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King's College, London; and Member, British House
of Lords