From the Central Region – March 2019 Erasmus+ KA1 mobility project ‘Education behind bars’ From December 2017 through January 2019 Socially Excluded Educational Association ‘Busola’ was running an EU project thanks to which a few of its members could take … Read More
From the Central Region – March 2019 Prison education seems to be a very neglected field. Many inmates do not have any opportunity to develop themselves due to various barriers – be it system barriers, local ones within penitentiary units, … Read More
March 2019 – Over the last few months both Portugal and Switzerland have worked hard on the formation of national EPEA branches. Last week the EPEA received the constitutions of both branches and in her online meeting the Steering Committee … Read More
December 2018 EPEA would like to inform that the 2018 International Day of Education in Prison (IDEP) Contest was won by a group of teachers and students of the Gymnasium and Lyceum that operates within the Avlonas Prison for Young … Read More
November 2018 – Porto, Portugal On the 6thof November, the city of Porto hosted the first International Seminar on “Education and eLearning in Prisons in Portugal“. In a combined organisation of the Open University (Universidade Aberta) and the Coimbra’s University … Read More
In society the mainstream is to think that the reintegration of offenders only depends on the successful completion of the programmes started in prison or with probation services. Or in other words that successful reintegration only depends on Prison and … Read More