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Exhibition Contemporary Prison Systems in Portugal: Reintegrate and Regenerate. From 7 September to 19 OctoberAnother of the initiatives included in the programme to promote the European Heritage Label awarded in 2015 to the 1867 Charter Law that established a penal and prison reform with the abolition of the death penalty.

Associated with this event will be the Conference – Prison Models and Social Reintegration, on 19 October and the Exhibition – Photographic Project of Portuguese Prisons from 19 October to 5 January.

These events result from a joint work between the National Archives of Torre do Tombo, the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE, Professor Daniel Fink (University of Lausanne) and the photographers Peter Schulthess and Luís Barbosa.

Please check: CatalogueSite Marca Património Europeu, Abolição da pena de morte