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Further Developments in the Prison Systems of Central and Eastern Europe: Achievements, Problems and Objectives
Roy Walmsley, ed.
(Paperback)
2003, 570 pages
ISBN: 952-5333-14-0
$43.00
This study describes the prison systems of 22 countries of Central and Eastern Europe as of 2001. It updates a similar study that described the prisons systems in 16 central and eastern European systems as of 1994. Chapter topics include 20 different aspects of the prison systems, including: the size of prison populations; the conditions of pretrial detention, particularly overcrowding, and the time length of detention; the state of the physical facilities; the limited resources available for improving conditions and daily operations; delays in the passage of new criminal codes; the shortage of non-custodial alternatives to imprisonment; the quality of staff; prisoner employment; main problems; achievements; and most important recent developments, among others. The situation in individual prison systems as of 2001 is portrayed in chapters on Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the mini-states of Abkhazia, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia and Transnistra. Data were obtained from official reports, information provided by experts, questionnaires completed by prison administrators, and site visits to some of the facilities.
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