Prison Insider : off to a running start

2014-2016 : Creation of the association

-> Name selection, logo creation and initial site structure

-> Constitutive General Assembly, 5 July 2015

-> Submission of articles of association at the Prefecture of Rhône (France), 31 August 2015

-> Publication in the Official Journal (Journal officiel), 12 September 2015

-> Creation of the first tools for collecting information (chart creation)

-> Setting up a small team

-> Reaching out to correspondents, drafting of the first country profiles

-> Move into the organisation's first premises, 1 July 2016

-> Test website goes online, 20 September 2016

-> Registered charity status obtained (organisme d'intérêt général)

2017-2018 : Early days and building on strong foundations

-> Release of the first issue of the newsletter WEEK, January 2017

-> Publication of 20 country profiles across five continents

-> Prison Insider’s first *Grand soir* event with Jean-Marie Delarue and Wajdi Mouawad

-> Five months of coaching through the corporate patronage of the consulting firm Algoé: setting up a roadmap and a strategic development plan, January 2018

-> Quality control of the research methodology by experts: Jean-Marie Delarue, Controller-General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (Contrôleur general des lieux de privation de liberté,2008–2014); Marc Nève, lawyer at the Liège Bar and former Vice-President of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT); and Patrick Marest, former Director of the French section of the International Prison Watch (Observatoire international des prisons)

-> First significant demonstrations of support from the Council of Europe