Report analyzes the training programmes of workers in prisons

Monday, 31 August 2015 14:57 |

Experts from Fund – IGA made an overview of the existing programmes for training of workers in prisons. The processes were conducted in cooperation with Directorate General “Execution of Punishments” as well as with workers from the separate prisons. For this purpose several of the imprisonment institutions were visited and the activity finished with the preparation of a thorough report on the topic. There was a special focus on the programme “Adaptation” which is applied when the people sentenced to imprisonment enter prisons, literacy programmes, and programmes for increasing the individual and social skills.

Several conclusions were drawn:

The professional training of the workers in the places of imprisonment involves basic disciplines directly related to the operational activity while there is a general lack of disciplines and topics in which to acquire the so called portable skills such as teamwork, communicative skills, etc.

In the professional training of the workers in prisons there is a general lack of trainings where the workers can acquire purposeful knowledge and acquire skills for work with individuals with psychiatric disorders and individuals with a low intellectual capacity.

It is necessary for the initial professional training to be conducted in due time because the lack of knowledge and skills on behalf of the workers can lead to making mistakes due to ignorance.

In order for the quality of the professional training to be increased there should be a more active usage of the existing training programmes developed by NGO-s within various projects.

The professional training might increase if university lecturers from the respective scientific sphere in which a deficiency has been identified take part in the inside trainings.

It is necessary for Directorate General “Execution of Punishments” to provide financial opportunities for the participation of workers in prisons in different national and international conferences as well as the more frequent organization of national scientific-practical conferences in which the different personnels from all prisons in the country will be able to exchange good practices.