5:00 pm Breaking the Cycle: Reform, Recovery, and Redemption in Prison

MCC Szeged Center

Ian Acheson is a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, a high-profile US-based NGO that promotes effective practice and innovation on countering violent extremism worldwide. After years of experience as the Head of Security in HM Wandsworth Prison (then Europes biggest prison) he pioneered unique programmes to reduce prison violence and reintegrate drug addicts. In his lecture he will share effective methods that can help to breake this evil cylce.