This compendium includes the following Conventions, Recommendations and Resolutions:

CONVENTIONS

  • European Convention on the Supervision of Conditionally Sentenced or Conditionally Released Offenders (1964) – ETS No. 051
  • Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1983) – ETS No. 112
  • Additional Protocol to the European Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1997) – ETS No. 167
  • Protocol amending the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (2017) – ETS No. 222

RECOMMENDATIONS

  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2020) 3 concerning the practical application of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons and the additional Protocol thereto
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2018) 8 concerning restorative justice in criminal matters
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2018) 5 concerning children with imprisoned parents
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2017) 3 on the European Rules on community sanctions and measures
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2014) 4 on electronic monitoring
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2014) 3 concerning dangerous offenders
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2012) 12 concerning foreign prisoners
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2012) 5 on the European Code of Ethics for Prison Staff
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2010) 1 on the Council of Europe Probation Rules
  • Recommendation CM/Rec (2008) 11 on the European Rules for juvenile offenders subject to Sanctions or measures
  • Recommendation Rec (2006) 13 on the use of remand in custody, the conditions in which it takes place and the provision of safeguards against abuse
  • Recommendation Rec (2006) 2-rev on the European Prison Rules
  • Recommendation Rec (2003) 23 on the management by prison administrations of life sentence and other long-term prisoners
  • Recommendation Rec (2003) 22 on conditional release (parole)
  • Recommendation R (99) 22 concerning Prison Overcrowding and Prison Population Inflation
  • Recommendation R (99) 19 concerning mediation in penal matters
  • Recommendation R (98) 7 concerning the ethical and organisational aspects of health care in prison
  • Recommendation R (97) 12 on staff concerned with the implementation of sanctions and measures
  • Recommendation R (93) 6 concerning prison and criminological aspects of the control of transmissible diseases including aids and related health problems in prison
  • Recommendation R (89) 12 on education in prison
  • Recommendation R (82) 16 on prison leave
  • Recommendation R (79) 14 concerning the application of the European Convention on the supervision of conditionally sentenced or conditionally released offenders

OTHER COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS’ DOCUMENTS

  • Guidelines for prison and probation services regarding radicalisation and violent extremism

RESOLUTIONS

  • Resolution (70) 1 on the practical organisation of measures for the supervision and after-care of conditionally sentenced or conditionally released offenders
  • Resolution (67) 5 on research on prisoners considered from the individual angle, and on the prison community
  • Resolution (62) 2 on electoral, civil and social rights of prisoners

“The mood and temper of the public with regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the unfailing tests of the civilisation of a country.” — Winston Churchill