Moscow,
7-9 December 1998
Monday, 7 December 1998.
9.00 – 10.00
- Registration of participants
- Plenary session. Chairs: Valery Abramkin and PRI representative
10.00 – 10.45
- Opening session
- Introduction: Valery Abramkin, MCPR
Director
- Greetings and short presentations
- Representatives of Presidential structures, bodies of executive and legislative branches
of power; Moscow authorities; Initiative Group of “Common Case” and PRI
10.45 – 11.15
- Criminal Executive system on the threshold of new reforms. Yuri
Kalinin, Deputy Minster of Justice
11.15 – 11.45
- Prison reforms and reduction of prison population in the world. PRI experts
- Coffee break
12.00 – 13.00
- Bodies of criminal justice and human rights
- Representatives of the Ministry of the Interior, Prosecutor General Office, Supreme or
Constitutional Court, Initiative Group “Common Cause” (Andrey Babushkin or Karinna
Moskalenko)
13.00 – 14.00
- Lunch
- Plenary session. Chair: Boris Altshuller and Deputy of the State Duma)
14.00 – 14.20
- Problems of establishing juvenile justice in Russia. Grigori Zabrianski, Leading
researcher at the Institute of Law and Legal Order
14.20 – 14.45
- Presenting the final documents of the conference. Valery Abrmkin,
MCPR Director
- Coffee break
15.00 – 18.00
Main groups:
Group 1. Pre-trial
stages of criminal justice. Punitive and restorative justice
Group2. Judicial reform.
Possibilities for the judicial system to effect the reduction of prison population
Group 3. Penal system
– what should it be? Alternatives to prisons
Additional groups:
Group 4. How the prison
system can survive under economic, financial and political crisis. Programme of urgent
steps to assist the system
Group 5. Prison TB:
forthcoming dangers and possibilities to prevent the disaster
Tuesday, 8 December 1998.
Plenary session.
10.00 – 11.45
- Reports of groups 1 and discussion. Chair: Representatives of PRI
and “Common Cause” group
- Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.30
- Reports of Group 2 and discussion. Chair: Representative of PRI
and Lyudmila Karnozova, expert of the MCPR
13.30 – 14.30
14.30 – 16.00
- Reports of Group 3 and discussion
16.00 – 16.15
- Setting up a group to edit final documents
17.00
- Opening the exhibition. “Prison and A Human Being” (ground floor)
17.30 – 18.30
- Press-conference (ground floor)
18.30 – 19.30
17.30 –20.00
- Charity sale of the prisoners’ handy crafts (1st floor)
Wednesday, 9 December 1998.
Plenary session. Chairs: co-ordinator of anti-TB programme, representative of the Russian
Prison Administration.
11.00 – 11.45
- Reports of group 5 and discussion
11.45 – 13.00
- Reports of Group 4 and discussion
13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 15.45
- Presentation of final documents and discussion
- Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.00
- Presentations by the conference guests. Closing session
17.30 – 19.00
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Monday,
7 December 1998