Iasi Penitentiary – PROVA project

Interventions

Collaboration Prevents Discrimination

Target group: public and private organizations, including not-for-profit organizations and NGOs, responsible for the organization and delivery of education and training at local, regional and national levels.
Place / Facilities: Iasi
Main actions: In many cases, ex-offenders face discrimination and have problems with their rehabilitation into society. In this context, many inmates return to prison, being deprived of the chance of a normal life in freedom. The project aims to develop an inter-institutional collaboration mechanism in Iasi county, to support the social reintegration of former prisoners, thus fighting the discrimination against former prisoners that are vulnerable to social and economic exclusion. To achieve it, an Icelandic partner transferred know-how on non-discrimination working with vulnerable groups. The project moreover organised trainings for specialists from relevant institutions that work with prisoners prior to their release, as well as former prisoners to ensure reintegration into the community. A support program to encourage former prisoners' reintegration in the community had also been developed and implemented. In addition, the project resulted in an inter-institutional manual on community reintegration of former prisoners.
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In the blind’s world, my evening story, my soul story

Target group: inmates in Penitentiary, school pupils from Special Education High School "Moldova" in Targu Frumos, Iasi County
Place / Facilities: Iasi
Main actions: The prison inmates would exercise radio competencies in order to voice record fairy tales to be broadcasted via radio to blind children (Special High School for the Blind in Targu Frumos).
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Information campaign in the penitentiary on aspects of living with disabilities

Target group: detainees, detainees with disability, representatives from the community, students.
Place / Facilities: Iasi
Main actions: Educational training on the rights, services and facilities offered in community for the disabled people; Distribution of flyers to people with disability and the leaders of prison cells; Exhibition of posters created by young detainees on „Etiquette in relating with people with disability”
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The World Day for the Prevention of Suicide, The project „You cannot be replaced!

Target group: detainees
Place / Facilities: Iasi
Main actions: Psychologists, educators, the priest from the Penitentiary and teh collaborators from the Humanitarian Service for the Penitentiaries, the Pastor Ovidiu Burbulea (Seven Day Adventist Church) and the Roman-Catholic priest Alois Fartadi had a debate on the suicide prevention and identifying methods for intervening in reducing suicide risk. A documentary film was presented on sociological, medical and religious aspects of the topic of suicide.
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The Living Library

Target group: detainees, community representatives
Place / Facilities: Iasi
Main actions: The living Library is open for the general public, functioning as a regular library where people come and borrow books and return them except that these „books” are actually people that the visitors can interact with, can hear stories about life in prison, and about those who define it as „the personnel in the penitentiary system and correctional people”
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Interinstitutional collaboration agreement regarding the social reintegration of detainees of Iasi county

Target group: detainees, community representatives
Place / Facilities: Iasi
Main actions: Coordination and implementation of the institutional collaboration mechanism according to the attributions of the each partner; Participation to the implementation, evaluation and finalization of the social reintegration program for the detainees; Coordination of the community reintegration actions of the detainees from the Iasi Penitentiary; Providing access in the Iasi Penitentiary for the representatives of the partners institutions with the aim to implement the social reintegration program for the detainees; Referring detainees from Iasi county to the partners institutions; Facilitating the communication and managing the information between partners.
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