National and European Administration, Prisons Services

EPSU sent a letter of solidarity to its Greek affiliate OSYE to support their calls for the recruitment of additional staff and action to address the excessive workload of their members.

Based primarily on reports provided by the EPSU prison services network, EPSU has put together an update on COVID-19 in Europe’s prisons and other detention centres, as well as five policy recommendations to protect prison workers and those under their care.

Call for exchange of information on government measures and trade union responses.

A major review of hundreds of academic studies reveals that there is no empirical evidence that the private sector is intrinsically more efficient than the public sector

Europe’s austerity policies continue to have an extremely negative impact on employment conditions within the prison service sector.

(June 2016) Executive summary : The report is based primarily on responses to an EPSU questionnaire received from 14 unions representing prison staff in 12 countries, supplemented by material from the Council of Europe’s SPACE surveys and national sources. Initial findings were presented to a

(30 September 2016) Starting this week, the SNLP, Romania’s largest prison workers union, has launched a series of protest actions over the failure of the government to compensate massive amount of overtime and to increase staffing in the country’s prisons that fall short of 8000 staff.EPSU that