This report on violence against employees is part of a series of reports, yet it differs from the others in that it has an overall perspective on developments from 2004 to 2010. The report concerns one of several main topics in our studies of the problem of violence and threats in the Correctional Service: violence against employees. The report's analysis is thus a part of the overall assessment of violent interactions in the Correctional Service.

The  Department for Supplementary & Further Education at KRUS have applied the Board of Directors (BOD)  of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) to organize a MINT-approved Training New Trainers (TNT) at KRUS this year. This will be a TNT open to all speaking a Scandinavian language (Danish, Swedish or Norwegian) and having good skills in MI. There will be room for approximately 40 participants. The MINT Board of Directors' demands to us as organizers, are both academically and in terms of practical implementation very high. But based on the feedback we have received so far from the BOD, we believe we do already  meet the requirements of promoters. We regard it as very likely that we shall get approvement to our application to host a TNT in MI. For more information, please have a look at our TNT Nordic 2012 website:

KRUS got pleasant visit from Kenya on Tuesday. Edna A. Nyaloti, Principal Rights Officer / HoD, Mohamed K. Hello, Commission Secretary and Fatuma Adan Dullo, Commissioner. All from the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights in Nairobi. They were accompanied by Ola Godø Andersen from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and were interested in hearing about how we take care of inmates and staff  in Norway and especially the rights of children of prisoners. At KRUS they were informed by the Department  of Studies' head Egil Larsen, Tor Grindaker, Torunn Højdahl, senior advisor Knut Andersen, as well as research director Berit Johnsen. It was served lunch and concluded with a tour of KRUS.

This year's meeting of the Nordic Program Forum was held on KRUS in Oslo, with participants from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and England / Wales. The topics were about the research on quality and effectiveness of crime prevention  programs and quality assurance programs. In addition, participants discussed the training and certification of  facilitators / program managers who implement programs with the defendant.