TREATMENT IN PRISONTREATMENT IN PRISON

PROGRAMMES OF SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL ATTENTION IN PRISON.

Experiences and good practice in the area Experiences and good practice in the area of the Penitentiary System.of the Penitentiary System.

INTERNATIONAL GRUNDTVIG PROJECTS IN PERMANENT EDUCATION FOR ADULTS

THE HEART FAR AWAYWITHOUT BARRIERS

NEED OF RESETLEMENT OF REFUGEES IN EUROPE

NO MORE TEARS

PENITENTIARY SYSTEM.The programmes of socio-educational attention in prisonPRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).

Education implies a complex interactive and multi-disciplinary process between the person and the society.

To educate in and for a society that creates opportunities for the personal development, promotes the participation of all the people by means of formation, work, culture, and guarantees the basic rights, in short, it facilitates a decent life. Educating, socialising a person who is freely compromised with him/ herself and with that society in the respect of the basic rights and liberties.

In this framework, the privative penalties of freedom have certain goals and duration. To make the most of this time to “re-educate and re-socialise” imprisoned people and intervene in each of the areas which facilitate the integration, is, perhaps, one of the highest compromises and responsibilities of the society and the Spanish penitentiary system: to create cohabitation, educational and formative work, therapeutic and cultural spaces that make possible their preparation for life in freedom.

Offenders’ description

• 500 offenders• Almost 50 nationalities• About 30 years old• Low educational level• Low level of work formation• Deficient work habits

Specific, personal, family, social problems:

• Drug-addiction• AIDS• Dual pathology• Unemployment, precarious jobs,, exclusion, discrimination …

TREATMENT IN PRISON.The programmes of socio-educational attention in the prison. PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).

Problems…

Low educational level

Def. work habitsDef work formation

PENITENTIARY GENERAL ORGANIC LAW. LO 1/1979, 26th September , BOE 05/10/1979.

TITLE III OF THE TREATMENT

Art. 59

1. The penitentiary system consists on the amount of activities directly aimed at the achievement of the re-education and social re-habilitation of the convicts.

2. The treatment intends to make the inmate a person with the intention and capacity to live respecting the penal Law, as well as satisfy his necessities.

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“If you have contact with somebody for what he is, he will go on being so. If you approach him as if he were what he could be… he will”

Goethe.

PRINCIPLES OF PROCEEDING*The proceeding of a penitentiary professional in any position has to necessarily fulfill the three following requirements:

1st.-To treat the offenders with the respect and consideration demanded by the human rights, that is, to treat them in a human and decent way.

2nd.- To guarantee the accomplishment of each of their rights that belong to them as inmates of a prison.

3rd.-To demand from them the same treatment of respect and consideration both towards the rest of the inmates and the other people related to the penitentiary work, as well as the accomplishment of their duties.

Víctor Fraga Gayoso.

* On account of the courses of Work Health organized by the “D.G”. of “II.PP”. in Madrid, in November 1996, for Governors of Prisons, Representatives of the Workers and Personal and Prevention Delegates.

TREATMENT IN PRISON.The programmes of socio-educational attention in the prison. PRISON OF MONTERROSO(LUGO)

ACTIVITIES AIMED AT RE-EDUCATION AND SOCIAL REHABILITATION

– MEDICAL ASSISTANCE : bio-psychosocial orientation

– INSTRUCTION, EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORT

– TREATMENT PROGRAMMES

– WORK FORMATION

– JOBS

Within the established legal framework and the limits demanded by:

•THE REGIME OF PRISONS•THE SECURITY OF THE ESTABLISHMENTS

•Administrative, legal and media controls• D.G. II. PP.

• J .V. P and Defensor of people. •The media.

TREATMENT IN PRISON.The programmes of socio-educational attention in the prison. PRISON OF MONTERROSO(LUGO)

“Show me your prisons and I will tell you the society that you have".

Foucault

CULTURAL INTERVENTION PERMANENT CENTRE FOR ADULTS

– More than 120 offenders take part either going to the school centre or by mail.

– Different educational levels are taught: basic education (literacy teaching, Spanish as a foreign language, encouragemet to read, ESO) and even University studies through the UNED.

– A library with more than 12,000 books is available.

– Due to the increasing number of foreign offenders( nowadays, more than 70%), and since many of them don’t understand Spanish, we try to foster their access to school so that they can learn some basic knowledge about our language and in this way, to have access to other resources.

– Coordination of different International Cooperation Projects in permanent education of adults (Grundtvig).

– http://theheartfaraway.blogspot.com– http://withoutbarriers.blogspot.com– http://grundtvig2009-2011.blogspot.com

““Every school that is opened is a prison that is closed”. – Domingo F. Sarmiento. Every school that is opened is a prison that is closed”. – Domingo F. Sarmiento. Víctor Hugo.Víctor Hugo.

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Classrooms in the prison of Monterroso.

SCHOOL/CULTURAL EDUCATION

To achieve universal primary education is one of the Objectives of Development in the Millennium, stated in the Declaration of the Millennium of the United Nations

TREATMENT IN PRISON.The programmes of socio-educational attention in the prison.PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO)

Computer rooms and workshops in the prison of Monterroso.

SCHOOL/CULTURAL INTERVENTION

The Culture Department tries to foster reading among the offenders of Monterroso. La Voz de Galicia. 29.04.2006.

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TREATMENT IN PRISON.The programmes of socio-educational attention in the prison.PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).

TREATMENT PROGRAMMES

• Prevention of suicides.• “GAD”. • Sexual Aggressors.• Mistreaters at home.• Youngsters.• Therapy with animals.• Work formation and employment.• Leisure, sport, art and culture.• Psychological and Social help.• Classifications, permissions to go out, derivations, guided tours and prison

visits…

TREATMENT PROGRAMMES

Therapy with animalsSunday 10th February 2008

Lugo

Two dogs become therapists in the prison of Monterroso.

Ada and Junio have been improving the life quality of four inmates for a few months.

Autor: X. Carreira

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TREATMENT PROGRAMMES

Organized visits

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Veterans of the “ Club Deportivo Lugo y Selección de internos del C.P of Monterroso. “(2007)

The veterans of the “Club Deportivo Lugo” visited the prison to play two matches with the inmates.

SPORTS

CULTURAL

INTERVENTION

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ART WORKSHOP ART WORKSHOP PRISON OF MONTERROSOPRISON OF MONTERROSO

ARTISTIC-CULTURAL INTERVENTION

The sculptor Díaz Fuentes will be in charge of a workshop of plastic arts in the prison of the village.

H. GARCÍA. MONTERROSO 24/10/2007

The sculptor José Díaz Fuentes will give classes in a workshop about plastic arts in the prison of Monterroso.

Díaz Fuentes, president of the UNESCO Centre of Sarria and organiser of the third series of the “Salón de Otoño de París” in the French capital.

PROGRAMME OF INITIATION TO CLASSICAL MUSICPROGRAMME OF INITIATION TO CLASSICAL MUSICPRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).

CULTURAL INTERVENTION

The offenders of Monterroso vibrated with Chaikovski Lucía R. Ínsua

Date 9/8/2007

PROGRAMME OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT

PROFESSIONAL-TRAINING INTERVENTIONPRODUCTIVE WORK ACTIVITY: PAID WORK

The following courses of professional formation were offered in 2008/09:

• Gardener• Painter • Tiling welder • Welder of stainless steel• Office automation• Iron Worker• Crane operator• Food handlers• Socio-work insertion• Computer programming

• About 15/20 inmates are selected to take part in each of the courses. These courses last three hundred hours on average. Thus, each year, the number of inmates that participate in courses of professional, occupational formation exceeds one hundred inmates

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Live Radio Programme from Monterroso

Inmates from Monterroso Visit Reformatory Centers in Ourense

Newspaper Article. “La Voz de Galicia” with the Members of the Grundtvig Project from Monterroso.

Galician Television with “The Heart Faraway” in Monterroso

Honorary Mention by the General Secretary of Prisons in Spain.

“What has to be learnt to know how it is done,first has to be done to be learnt”.

Aristotle .

As a result of the society in which it is developed , a great number of professionals believe in this model of intervention and in the offenders that take part in these activities. A descriptive exposition that reflects, or at least, tries to reflect a social reality in prison, a job which is always in evolution, imperfect, dynamic, alive and unfinished.

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THANKFULNESS TO :

• Prison’s staff• Instructors of the Formation courses• Collaborator organizations, charities and volunteers.• Collaborator companies and their workers: ACERIAS AS PONTES, PUMADE,

VALEO, VARSAN …

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All of us have been awarded with:

Bronze Medal to the penitentiary merit 2006Silver Medal to the penitentiary merit 2007

Honorific Mention to the Good Practices 2008 and 2009

Adana, 28/10/2010