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Andrew Coyle CMG is Emeritus Professor of Prison Studies at the
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. Between 1997 and 2005, Coyle was founding director of the
International Centre for Prison Studies The World Prison Brief at PrisonStudies.org is an online database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. It is now hosted by the Institute For Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck College, University of ...
at the School of Law,
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. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Prison Studies at the same School of Law. He was a visiting professor at the
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from 2011 to 2014. He has a PhD from the School of Law at the
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and was appointed a Fellow of
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in 2004. From 1973 to 1997, Coyle was a prison governor and successively governed Greenock, Peterhead, Shotts, and Brixton prisons.
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credited him with achieving "a remarkable transformation' at Brixton. He was a member of the
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from 2009 until 2014 and of the UK Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council from 2009 until 2013. From 2005 until 2010, he sat as a member of the inquiry into the murder of Billy Wright at
Maze Prison Her Majesty's Prison Maze (previously Long Kesh Detention Centre, and known colloquially as The Maze or H-Blocks) was a prison in Northern Ireland that was used to house alleged paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from August 1971 to Sep ...
, which was set up following the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement. From 2012 to 2013, at the request of the Scottish Government, Coyle carried out a review of proposed arrangements for the independent monitoring of prisons in Scotland. In 2015, he assisted the Inspector of Prisons for Ireland in reviewing the culture and organisation of the
Irish Prison Service The Irish Prison Service (IPS) () manages the day-to-day operation of prisons in the Republic of Ireland. Political responsibility for the Ireland's prisons rests with the Minister of the Department of Justice. Budget, staff, and figures As of ...
. He has been a specialist adviser to several UK parliamentary committees, most recently to the
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in its review of the government's proposals for prison reform in England and Wales. Coyle has been an adviser on prison and criminal justice matters to the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, the
UN Office on Drugs and Crime The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: ''Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime'') is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the ...
, the UN Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime, and the
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, including its
Committee for the Prevention of Torture The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment or shortly Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) is the anti-torture committee of the Council of Europe. Founded to enforce the Europe ...
(CPT). He was an expert member of the CPT's first two inspection visits to places of detention in the Russian Federation, in 1998 and 1999. He was a member of the UK
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's Advisory Committee against Torture from 2003 to 2010 and negotiated with the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority for the oversight of certain Palestinian prisoners between 2002 and 2006. Andrew Coyle is president of the Howard League Scotland, vice president of the Prison Visitors Association, and patron of Unlock and of
Prisoners Abroad Prisoners Abroad is a UK-registered human rights and welfare charity which supports British citizens who are imprisoned overseas. It also works with ex-prisoners returning to the UK and family members and friends of those detained. The organisat ...
. He was appointed a
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV, George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, George III, King George III. ...
(CMG) in the New Year's Honours 2003 for his contribution to international penal reform.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coyle, Andrew Living people Academics of King's College London Fellows of King's College London Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)