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Saso Glasgow Branch Annual Conference Prisons & Imprisonment: Restriction of Liberty, Rights, Monday Responsibility & Rehabilitation 14 May 2012 saso glasgow branch Annual Conference Prisons & Imprisonment: Restriction of Liberty, Rights, Monday Responsibility & Rehabilitation 14 May 2012 University of Conference Chair Brigadier Hugh Monro CBE Strathclyde HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Glasgow Programme & Guest Speakers Rt Hon Prof Dame Elish Angiolini, DBE QC formerly Lord Advocate for Scotland, Chair of the Commission on Women Event Offenders, Visiting Professor Strathclyde University Law School Timing “Women’s Offending & Imprisonment” 09:30 – 16:30 Dame Anne Owers DBE formerly HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (England & Wales), Chair of Clinks, Chair, Independent Police Complaints Commission “A good prison system: principles and practice” Delegate Joe Duffy Rates Project Director, Petal Support Limited From £25 - £90 (title to be confirmed) Annabel Goldie MSP “Prisons and the Public Interest” Members and Non-Members Prof Nancy Loucks Chief Executive, Families Outside, Visiting Professor, Centre for Law, Welcome Crime & Justice, Strathclyde University “Whose Crime is it Anyway? Rights & experiences when a CPD time may be family member goes to prison claimed for advocates, solicitors and Audrey Park Children’s Panel Director, HMP Addiewell members “Prisoners’ rights and responsibilities: a prison perspective” For further details please contact: Irene Cameron, SASO Glasgow Branch c/o Association Management Solutions, PO Box 2781, Glasgow, G61 3YL e: [email protected] t: 0141 560 4092 f: 0141 560 4092 w: www.sastudyoffending.org.uk SASO Glasgow Branch Conference Speaker Biographies Brigadier Hugh Monro CBE Brigadier Hugh Monro CBE took up the role of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland in June 2009. To date he has inspected nine of Scotland’s prisons, including three inspections of HMP&YOI Cornton Vale, the first in September 2009, and two follow‐ups ‐ February 2011, and January‐February 2012 ‐ and carried out the Review of Progression to the Open Estate. He served in the British Army for 36 years. He was commissioned into the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) in May 1972 and served in Northern Ireland (8 operational tours), Germany, Hong Kong, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands. He commanded 1st Battalion Queen's Own Highlanders in 1994 and then the st newly formed 1 Battalion The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons). He was then promoted to Colonel and served for 3 years in the Ministry of Defence in the Military Operations Directorate, leading the policy change to ban the British Army’s use of anti personnel land mines. Promoted to Brigadier in 1998, he commanded the 52nd Lowland Brigade based in Edinburgh Castle. It was during this 3‐year tour that he led the operation to eradicate Foot and Mouth Disease from Scotland. This was successfully carried out in less than 6 weeks. As Commandant, he set up and commanded the School of Infantry, based in Catterick, North Yorkshire, for 4‐years 2002‐2005. In 2006 he was appointed Deputy Commanding General of the Multi‐National Security Transition Command ‐ Iraq (MNSTC‐I) based in Baghdad. This command had responsibility for training and equipping the new Iraqi Army and Police Force. Rt Hon Prof Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC Dame Elish is the former Lord Advocate of Scotland. Prior to this she was Solicitor General for Scotland. She was the first woman, and the first solicitor in the modern era to hold either position. Born in Govan, Glasgow, she attended Notre Dame High School for Girls and studied Law at Strathclyde University. She is now a visiting professor at Strathclyde, an honorary professor at Aberdeen University and holds honorary degrees from the universities of Glasgow Caledonian, Strathclyde and Aberdeen. She is also a QC and Privy Counsellor. As Solicitor General for Scotland (2001‐6) and then as Lord Advocate Dame Elish was instrumental in reforming the operation of the justice system in Scotland, in particular making it more responsive to the victims of crime. In addition she supervised some of the most significant prosecutions in Scotland in the last decade and acted as the Scottish Government’s legal advisor during a period of major change. Unusually she held the post without political affiliation and was reappointed Lord Advocate by the incoming SNP Government in 2007. She is renowned for her championing of equality and dignity in the justice system. She stepped down from her post as Lord Advocate and is currently chairing the Commission of Inquiry on Women Offenders in Scotland as well as practising as an advocate at the Scottish Bar. She was awarded the DBE for services to the administration of justice in 2011. In the same year she was granted a Special Achievement Award by the International Association of Prosecutors. In September 2012 she takes up the post of Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Dame Anne Owers DBE Anne Owers was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, after which she taught and did research in Zambia. She had a long career in the non‐governmental sector, focusing on asylum, race, human rights and criminal justice, having been General Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and Director of JUSTICE, the British section of the International Commission of Jurists. From 2001‐10 she was Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, carrying out independent inspection of prisons, immigration detention centres, police and military custody, and coordinating the UK’s National Preventive Mechanism under the UN Optional Protocol against Torture. She has reported on women’s prisons in Canada and Jamaica and from 2010 to 2011 she chaired an independent review of the prison system in Northern Ireland. She also chairs two national NGOs working with offenders in prison and the community. In April 2012 she becomes Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission for England & Wales. Annabel Goldie MSP Born in 1950, Annabel Goldie MSP is regional MSP for the West of Scotland region. Annabel was educated at Kilmacolm Primary School, Greenock Academy, studied law at Strathclyde University and Graduated LLB. From 1978 – January 2006 she was a partner in the Glasgow firm of Donaldson, Alexander, Russell & Haddow. Annabel is also a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Renfrewshire, Member of the Salvation Army West of Scotland Advisory Board, an Elder of the Church of Scotland in Bishopton and Honorary Fellow of the University of Strathclyde. She became leader of the Scottish Conservatives in the Scottish Parliament in November 2005, and stood down in November 2011. As well as being a member of the National Trust for Scotland, the RSPB and the Scottish Wildlife Trust, Annabel's interests include the countryside, music and literature. Professor Nancy Loucks Nancy is the Chief Executive of Families Outside, a Scottish voluntary organisation that works on behalf of families affected by imprisonment. Prior to this she worked as an Independent Criminologist, specialising in research on prison policy and comparative criminology. She received her M. Phil and Ph. D. from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge and in 2012 was appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Law, Crime and Justice. Prof Loucks has conducted extensive research into human rights issues in prison, female and young offenders, prison violence and protests, addiction, suicides and self‐harm, violence risk assessment and management, the experience of offenders with learning difficulties and learning disabilities, homelessness amongst ex‐prisoners, and the maintenance of prisoners' family ties. Her work on family issues includes research into family participation in prisoner resettlement, studies of the role of Prison Visitors’ Centres and of the work of Family Contact Officers, research into young parents in prison, consultations with prisoners' families, and international reviews of the literature on needs and services for prisoners’ families and on private family visits. She was a Trustee for the Visitors' Centre at HMP Edinburgh for six years and an invited member of the National Advisory Body on Offender Management for the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice. Audrey Park Born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, after completing secondary education at Hamilton Grammar, Audrey went on to Glasgow University and achieved an MA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. On leaving university she took up a position with Sun Alliance Insurance Group as a graduate trainee and stayed with them for two years prior to being attracted to an advert for direct entry managers into the Scottish Prison Service in 1986. She stayed with SPS until 2007, taking charge of a number of SPS establishments including Greenock, Glenochil, Perth and Shotts. In 2007 she left the public sector to take on the challenge of opening the second private sector prison in Scotland – HMP Addiewell – where she remains as Director. In the intervening 20 years Audrey has managed to squeeze in another few qualifications including an MSc in Legal Studies, an MBA (both from Edinburgh University), the Certificate in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors and an LLM in Human Rights Law from Strathclyde University in 2005. Joe Duffy (biog to follow) Glasgow Branch Annual Conference Monday 14 May 2012 McCance Lecture Theatre Strathclyde University, Glasgow saso Prisons & Imprisonment: THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION Restriction of Liberty, Rights, Responsibility & Rehabilitation FOR THE STUDY OF OFFENDING GLASGOW BRANCH REGISTRATION FORM Delegate Details Delegate
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