Punitive Alternatives: Challenges and Perspectives

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Loghlam Azzouz, Sekkouti Khaled

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Most advanced societies are rethinking their legal and penal systems, focusing on addressing causes rather than outcomes. They are prioritising rehabilitation and reintegration through reform centres and parallel activities, improving skills and vocational training, ensuring employment opportunities, and promoting alternative sanctions and conditional release. This involves developing a shared vision with those affected of their future plans after release, and helping them to prepare for this while in prison through education and rehabilitation programmes. In order to achieve comprehensive results, it has become essential to coordinate the improvement of prison conditions with the renovation of buildings, the training of prison staff and the monitoring of the necessary financial resources, especially for minors. In addition, it is crucial to improve the working conditions of the judiciary, which issues sentences and sends people to prison, by increasing the number of judges and preventing the executive from overstepping its bounds with regard to the judiciary in order to satisfy its demands.

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