Prison population total and prison rate per 100,000 are retrieved from Aebi, M. F., Cocco, E., Molnar, L. & Tiago, M. M., (2022). SPACE I – 2021 – Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics: Prison populations. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, Table 7.Estimated number of children separated from an imprisoned parent: extrapolation based on Champsaur, P., … Read More
Virtual Prison Visits
Treffpunkt e.V. is working on creating a program that would allow some of the visits for children to happen online. This will take some pressure off of prisons to hold visits with children, and in some cases allow children who are not comfortable visiting the prison a way to keep connected with their family member. … Read More
Bear Buddy
COPE affiliate BAG-S e.V. (Germany), in partnership with the Alanus Hochschule art school, has developed an innovative tool to help guide children through prison, from entry to departure, when they come to visit a parent who is incarcerated there. Bear Buddy is described in a picture book that children can read while waiting to see … Read More
TAKT Programme Launched
The programme TAKT was launched in the Nuremberg area. It’s main focus is on sensitivity training for prison staff (prison officers and social workers), school environments (teachers and social workers), and teaching modules about children of prisoners for classroom discussion. The programme comes out of a group of interviews from a COPING study in which … Read More