Cross-border transfer of sentenced mentally ill offenders in the EU : rehabilitation and mental health challenges

JHA on MR custodial sentences & deprivation of liberty revisiting EAW for 'transfer back' and 'aut dedere aut exequi' scenario's + new autonomous transfer of prisoner mechanism buzzwords/official rationale: social rehabilitation & succesful reintegration however position sentenced person/executing MS radically changed antecedents: 1983 CoE transfer of prisoner Convention + 1997 Protocol humanitarian (1983) + escape/expulsion scenarios (1997) IRCP study on detention in the (then) EU 27 as lead-up to EC initiative announced in Commission Action Plan Stockholm Programme underlying hypothesis mutual trust required lacks trust basis, because too significant differences between material detention conditions + laws governing the execution of sentences results launched in parallel with consultation on detention GP (2011) 2 books, open access assessment: MR creates new problems flanking measures needed draft handbook for European Commission (2015, too critical for EC) including flowchart