Mental Health Best Practice

This handbook provides recommendations intended for policy makers and policy influencers across the criminal justice system, who recognise mental health issues of prisoners as a key area of intervention both during imprisonment and on release.

The AWARE project brings forward as a solution a training programme for prison staff, probation services, civil society organizations and volunteers who work with former prisoners. To provide impulses for the development of further training, AWARE reviewed existing scientific and practical findings on mental health in the criminal justice system and gathered them in a state-of-the-art report.

The Centre for Justice Innovation provides hands on support to practitioners in the justice system to help them develop and share innovative and effective practice; The Centre conduct research into how things work right now and how they could work better.

This manual was developed by Penal Reform International (PRI) together with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) and the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (UC) as part of project PRI Alt Eur: Promoting non-discriminatory alternatives to imprisonment across Europe, funded through the European Union’s Justice Programme (the projects site and the manual resource site).

This manual was developed by Penal Reform International (PRI) together with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) and the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (UC) as part of project PRI Alt Eur: Promoting non-discriminatory alternatives to imprisonment across Europe, funded through the European Union’s Justice Programme (the projects site and the manual resource site).