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16:07 09/06/06

FORMER PRISONERS INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY WITH DIFFICULTY

50 families of former prisoners live in a dormitory in Barzrashen
community. They publish their own newspaper `Return.’ Gevorg
KOSHKARYAN, head of public organization dealing with former prisoners’
protection told a press conference today that they have no means to
publish the last issue of the newspaper. `We have no computers and
have difficulties in publishing the paper,’ he said adding that the
Republican Party has promised to donate them a computer.

The library after Avetik Isahakyan has donated them with 20 pieces of
books, PO head said, also sharing the joy as the children read them
with delight. He, however, said that the dormitory is in very bad
conditions. He said in case construction material is provided they can
reconstruct the dormitory using their own resources.

`When people leave a prison and are not accepted in the society the
society pushes them back to crime for the second time,’ Armen
MAZMANYAN, an actor said. Being a former prisoner himself, Mazmanyan
is very concerned with the fate of former prisoners. `If a prisoner is
not integrated into the society, the bomb will blow up one day,’ he
said. /Panorama.am/