Key websites¶

• The DGRSP : the Directorate General of Reintegration and Prison Services
• The DGPJ : the Directorate General for Justice Policy
• ICPR - World Prison Brief, Portugal : key figures on prison systems
• The Portuguese Prison Project – A photographice exhibition of Portugues prisons

Legal texts (in portuguese)¶

• The Code for Execution of Sentences and Measures of Deprivation of Liberty
• The Code of Criminal Procedure
• The Penal Code
• The Constitution of Portuguese Republic
• The General Regulations of Penitentiary Institutions
• The Regulations of the use of the means of constraint in the penitentiary services
• The Law 23/2007 on entry, stay, departure and removal of foreigners from the national territory
• The Legislative Decree on the Status of Prison Supervisory Staff
• The decree on the classification of penitentiary establishments
• The European Prison Rules
• Government statistics on the prison population by type of institution, 2017
• Government statistics relating to penitentiary staff, 2017
• Government statistics on the prison population according to the criminal situation, 2018

Reports¶

• Ministry of Justice, Activities Report, 2010 (in Portuguese)
• European Observatory of Prisons, “The Prison conditions in Portugal”, 2013 (in English)
• Report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishments (CPT), 2016 (in English)

Scientific articles and press articles¶

• Gomes Sílvia, “Foreigners and ethnic groups in prison : reflections from Portugal”, 2014 (en anglais)
• “Opening of the first private prison in July”, tvi24, 2004 (in Portuguese)

Vidéos¶

• Institutional video of the penitentiary establishment of Santa Cruz do Bispo, 2015 (in Portuguese)
• “Dentro” Documentary about a high security prison, 2001, (in Portuguese, sub-titles in French)