NGO

European Prison Litigation Network

🇪🇺 FRANCERegistered 27/02 staff

Disclosed budget

€889,831

Meetings 12mo

Policy files

Accredited passes

Recent meetings

No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.

Mission & Goals

The European Prison Litigation Network (EPLN) is a European network of civil society organisations dedicated to strengthening the legal protection of people deprived of their liberty. As of April 2026, the network brings together 32 organisations from 20 European countries. EPLN operates at the European level to remove barriers to prisoners’ access to justice and to enhance effective judicial responses to the structural problems affecting prison systems across Europe. Its activities combine coordinated strategic litigation with advocacy aimed at advancing human rights standards, as well as research projects designed to generate robust, evidence-based knowledge in support of civil society organisations’ work. EPLN's thematic priorities of action are the defense of prisoners’ access to justice, improving access to healthcare, combatting ill-treatment and enhancing access to sentence adjustments.

EU Legislative Interests

- EUDA - European Commission's Rule of Law Report - European Commission's Ukraine Report - 2022: European Commission Recommendation (EU) 2023/681 of 8 December 2022 on procedural rights of suspects and accused persons subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions - 2023: Victims' Rights Directive (2023/0250(COD)) - 2025: MFF - EU funding for cross-border education, training and solidarity, youth, media, culture, and creative sectors, values, and civil society. - 2025: EU Civil Society Strategy

Communication Activities

- 2022: Feedback on the European Commission's call for evidence for a Recommendation on procedural rights of suspects and accused persons subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions - 2023: Contribution sent for the 2023 Rule of Law Report - 2023: Feedback submitted to the European Commission proposal for a revised Victims' Rights Directive - 2024: Feedback submitted to the European Parliament on its report on the Commission's proposal for a revised Victims' Rights Directive - 2023, 2024, 2025: Contribution to the European Commission's Ukraine Reports - 2025: Joint contribution to the High-Level Forum for the Future of EU Criminal Justice - 2025: Contribution to the call for feedback on the Next MFF - EU funding for cross-border education, training and solidarity, youth, media, culture, and creative sectors, values, and civil society. - 2025: Contribution to the call for feedback on the EU Civil Society Strategy.