Retsudvalget 2016-17
REU Alm.del Bilag 209
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The Use of Solitary Confinement as
a Disciplinary Measure
Provisional Program, International Seminar
Monday, 3 April 2017
09.00
Welcome
Karin Verland,
Director General of DIGNITY
Message by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
09.15
Panel 1: How can international legal standards be best implemented to curb the
excesses of solitary confinement?
Sir Malcolm Evans,
Chair of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and
other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT), and Professor
of Public International Law at the University of Bristol
Dr. James McManus,
Member of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the
Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)
Stephanie Selg,
Advisor on Torture Prevention at the Organisation for Security
and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)
Moderator:
Therese Marie Rytter,
Chief of Legal Department DIGNITY
10.30
11.00
Refreshment Break
Panel 2: What are the health consequences of solitary confinement?
Dr. Jens Modvig,
Chair of the United Nations Committee against Torture, and
Director of Health Department at DIGNITY
Ida Koch,
Psychologist, and Member of the Isolationsgrupp, on
‘
The mental,
physical and social consequences of solitary confinement’
Sharon Shalev,
Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and Fellow at the
Mannheim Centre for Criminology, LSE, on ‘Solitary
confinement, mental health
and “meaningful human contact”’
Peter Scharff Smith,
Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and
Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, and Member of the Scandinavian
Solitary Confinement Network
Moderator:
Marie Høgh Thøgersen,
Deputy Head of Rehabilitation and Chief
Psychologist, DIGNITY
12.15
Lunch
 REU, Alm.del - 2016-17 - Bilag 209: Invitation til international konference om anvendelse af isolation den 3/4-17, fra DIGNITY
13.15
Panel 3: How is solitary confinement as a disciplinary measure used in Denmark
(“strafcelle”) and what are areas of concern?
Ministry of Justice [TBC]
Annette
Esdorf,
Centerdirektør for
Center for
Straffuldbyrdelse,
Kriminalforsorgen
Morten Engberg,
afdelingschef, Folketingets Ombudsmand (NPM)
Jonas Christoffersen,
Director of Danish Institute for Human Rights
Bo Sørensen,
Forbundssekretær, Fængselsforbundet
Moderator:
Tomas Max Martin,
Researcher, Prevention of Torture in Detention,
DIGNITY
14.45
15.15
Refreshment Break
Panel 4: International experience using alternatives/reducing the use of
isolation
Jamie Bennett,
Governor of HMP Grendon & Springhill, England, and Editor of
the Prison Service Journal
Are Høidal,
Governor of Halden Prison, Norway, on
‘Prisoner Association as an
Alternative to Solitary Confinement - Lessons Learned From a Norwegian High
Security Prison’
Peter Scharff Smith,
Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and
Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo
Keramet Reiter,
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at University
of California at Irvine, on ‘Lessons
and Liabilities in American Solitary Confinement
Reform’
Moderator:
Andrew Jefferson,
Senior Researcher, Prevention of Torture in
Detention, DIGNITY
16.30
17:00
17:30
Conclusions and Recommendations
End of Seminar
Reception and dinner at DIGNITY