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Barriers to prisoner participation in educational courses : insights from a remand prison in Belgium Ghent University

Dorien Brosens, Flore Croux, Liesbeth De Donder
This article examines the profile of prisoners who do not take part in formal education while being incarcerated (e.g. language or ICT courses) and the barriers to participation these prisoners experience. Survey data were collected as part of a research project conducted in a remand prison in Belgium (n = 486). The results demonstrate that 29% of the prisoners take part in educational courses and that participation rates are lower among Belgian ...

Vulnerability and victimhood in prison: Reflecting on the concept of vulnerability in prisoner victimisation research KU Leuven

Aurore Vanliefde
In penological literature and in human rights (soft) law, specific groups of people are often categorised as vulnerable based on characteristics, such as age, gender identity, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation or socio-economic situation. While the concept of vulnerability tends to focus on certain groups of incarcerated persons who are more likely to experience victimisation, it also allows to broaden the scope of victimisation to ...

Foreign national and ethnic minority prisoners’ participation in formally organized occupations in prisons: A scoping review Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University

Flore Croux, Dorien Brosens, Liesbeth De Donder, Bart Claes, Stijn Vandevelde
This scoping review investigated foreign national and ethnic minority prisoners’ participation in formally organized occupations (prison activities) such as active citizenship, healthcare and treatment, leisure time, and reintegration occupations. It aimed to: (1) map available studies on both groups of prisoners’ participation in these occupations within prisons, and (2) evaluate existing research topics on participation and types of ...

Prisoner for a weekend in the prison of Haren Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Kristel Beyens
Along with seventy other participants, including magistrates and journalists, I spend two days trial runs in the prison of Haren prison. What does this immersion mean and what does it do to a person? This contribution gives, on the basis of a detailed report, an impression of my experiences3 during my short stay of 32 hours in the largest prison of Belgium.

Prisoners' participation and involvement in prison life in the prison of Ghent Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Dorien Brosens, Koenraad Polfliet
To investigate the participation initiatives that exist in the prison of Ghent, the surplus value of this, who participates, and the preconditions to realise prisoners’ participation and involvement in prison life, 11 focus groups were conducted with prisoners and professionals. The results demonstrate that not only formally organised projects but also several informal initiatives exist. Classifying the initiatives in the pyramid of citizen ...

Locking out emotions in locking up older prisoners? Emotional labour of Belgian prison officers and prison nurses Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Diete Humblet

This contribution looks at the emotional labour of prison professionals in the wake of an increasing number of older adults populating this institution. The rationale behind this selective focus is twofold. Firstly, the topic of ageing behind bars has only received scant attention, even though this phenomenon is also increasingly penetrating prison walls. Secondly, little attention has been paid to the performance of emotional labour by ...

Foreign National Prisoners in Flanders (Belgium): Motivations and Barriers to Participation in Prison Programmes Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University

Flore Croux, Dorien Brosens, Stijn Vandevelde, Liesbeth De Donder

This exploratory study examines the experiences of foreign national prisoners and the motivations and barriers to their participation in prison programmes (e.g. educational courses, use of the prison library, prison work, sociocultural activities, sports). Data are derived from 15 individual interviews with foreign national prisoners in two Belgian prisons. During the interviews the strengths-based approach of Appreciative Inquiry was used. ...