In her talk, Hadassa put forward a new approach to prison labor that she calls 'habilitationism.' It is the idea that imprisonment should enhance individuals' ability to participate in society, through offering meaningful opportunities for work while they serve their prison sentence.

Other speakers included:

Virginia Mantouvalou (UCL) and Gaëtan Cliquennois (Nantes) as keynote speakers
Andrei Poama (Leiden) - ‘The Idea of Prison Labor Abolition’
Mario Guido (UCL) – ‘The Privatisation of Prison Labour’
Hadassa Noorda (Amsterdam) – ‘Imprisonment and Meaningful Work’
Alain Zysset (Glasgow) – ‘Beyond Proportionality: Human Rights and Risk Assessment in the Quest for Preventive Justice’
Johan Olsthoorn (Amsterdam) – ‘Theorizing Legal Restrictions on Human Rights of Prisoners’
Lauren Lyons (UCSC) - Concluding remarks

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