RAN PRISONS Papers

This manual outlines responses to FTFs and their families, returning or planning to return to their home countries within the EU, from terrorist conflict zones such as Syria and Iraq. When the term “returnees” is used in this manual, it refers to FTFs and their families (women and children).

While the number of women returning or repatriated from terrorist organisations and conflict zones to the European Union (EU) has grown in recent years, the related prosecution and conviction rates are still low.

In recent years, the importance of multi-agency work and collaboration between governments and civil society in exit work has increased significantly.

This conclusion paper will elaborate on the main highlights of the discussion, focusing on emerging issues and challenges in the work with returning women, children and along the prison-exit continuum.

This paper outlines the highlights of the meeting and presents inspiring practices in the EU and beyond, followed by recommendations for what to consider when designing P/CVE trainings for prisons, both in terms of content and
delivery.

Religion and religious counselling can play a major role in offender rehabilitation and reintegration. The opportunity to practice one’s religion in prison and to have access to a representative of this religion is a human right allowed in prison.

This paper summarises the main insights gained about the French policy on effectively managing the prison-exit continuum. It presents the approach in detail, highlighting inspiring practice as well as gaps and challenges that emerged during discussions.

While the presence of violent extremist and terrorist offenders (VETOs) in prison is not a new phenomenon, their numbers have been growing in recent years and are currently at a 20-year high of over 1 400 such detainees.

During the period 2012-2015, RAN Derad focused on building a network and establishing guiding principles. Important discussions centred on the professional role of the exit worker, and on how to motivate participants and formers.