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Recommendation 2018 (2013) Final version
Promoting alternatives to imprisonment
1. Referring to its Resolution 1938 (2013) on
promoting alternatives to imprisonment, the Parliamentary Assembly
commends the Committee of Ministers for its earlier, groundbreaking
work on promoting alternatives to imprisonment, in particular Resolution (65) 1
on suspended sentence, probation and other alternatives to imprisonment;
Resolution (76) 10 on certain alternative penal measures to imprisonment;
Recommendation No. R (92) 16 on the European Rules on community
sanctions and measures; Recommendation No. R (99) 19 concerning
mediation in penal matters; Recommendation No. R (99) 22 concerning
prison overcrowding and prison population inflation; Recommendation Rec(2003)22
on conditional release (parole); Recommendation Rec(2006)2 on the
European Prison Rules; Recommendation Rec(2006)13 on the use of
remand in custody, the conditions in which it takes place and the
provision of safeguards against abuse; and Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)1
on the Council of Europe Probation Rules.
2. In light of recent advances in technology allowing for new
uses of electronic supervision and making them more cost-effective,
the Assembly invites the Committee of Ministers to consider addressing
a new recommendation to all member States aimed at promoting alternatives
to imprisonment with a view to reducing the prison population in
Europe, paying special attention to the increased potential of electronic
supervision measures, but also to new threats to human rights potentially
inherent in such measures.