Authors: Christopher Dean, Sebastien Feve and Eelco Kessels, Global Center on Cooperative Security (2018)

The Countering Violent Extremism in Prisons Good Practices Guide is intended to help prison authorities design and review their approaches to managing violent extremist offenders (VEOs) and identifying and addressing radicalization and recruitment to violent extremism in prisons, as well as to aid prison wardens and senior leadership to enhance their institutional and staff methodologies. It translates available good and promising practices identified across a number of key international and regional documents into an accessible framework to assist prison authorities improve their approaches. The Global Center on Cooperative Security developed this guide as part of its Countering Violent Extremism in Prisons capacity-building and training program.