{"id":51548,"date":"2014-12-12T09:12:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T09:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=33d6d3e33cc9edb5d8f6f49ef84eb024"},"modified":"2014-12-12T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T09:12:49","slug":"speech-the-second-prison-forum-was-held-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51548","title":{"rendered":"Speech: The Second Prison forum was held in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Secretary of State, Vice-Prime Minister, Ministers, ladies and gentlemen, friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n

I am delighted to speak today at this Second Prison forum. Let me thank the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the OSCE<\/abbr> and Penal Reform International for organising this event. Let me also thank all the participants and experts for taking part.<\/p>\n

On 03 December this year a Memorandum of Understanding on co-operation in the sphere of justice and the establishment of a joint consultative committee was signed by the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office of Kazakhstan and the my own Ministry of Justice . This is a great accomplishment in the bilateral relationship between our countries and the result of much hard work and dedication on both sides. I would particularly like to thank the Prosecutor General for his personal commitment to this document. We now look forward to the implementation of that MoU in coming months and years. <\/p>\n

I think we can all agree that the rehabilitation of ex-prisoners is a significant problem in the Kazakhstani penal system. Unemployment, both while prisoners are serving their sentences, but also after their release from prison, is a challenge. Building an effective national system to address this is therefore important for the individuals concerned, as well as for the prison service administration and society as a whole. A well functioning rehabilitation system helps contribute to the reduction in the risk of reoffending and therefore in the size of the prison population. <\/p>\n

It is therefore my sincere hope that this forum\u2019s holistic approach, bringing together a wide range of practitioners and stakeholders in Government ministries and penal administration, social support mechanisms, and local businesses will result in some significant progress in this area. <\/p>\n

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In January 2011, the functions of social adaptation and prisoner rehabilitation were transferred from the prison services to akimats. Today many resocialisation programmes are provided by religious centres and a small number of NGOs. However, given the large number of prisoners released each year, I believe there would be benefits in a government run programme to meet the needs of ex-prisoners. It is vital to remember that rehabilitation is not just important to ensure the reintegration of former prisoners into society, but also for wider security reasons and to prevent recidivism. <\/p>\n

Today\u2019s discussions on re-socialisation of prisoners and the employment of ex-inmates will facilitate the development of re-socialisation in the regions of Kazakhstan as part of the Criminal Executive Code reform. In addition I hope it will help support positive developments in an ambitious Government-led reform process that covers the wider Kazakhstani judicial system. This will also help reduce prison population over time.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the British Embassy, let me therefore thank you all for your ongoing efforts in this area. Significant progress has already been made but there are many challenges ahead.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speech given by Greg Quinn, British Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires to Kazakhstan on December 12. This is an English transcript of the speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}