FIRST MONITORING, NOW POST-PENITENTIARY REHABILITATION
KarabakhOpen
30-10-2007 12:38:35
The Civic Action Center held a round-table meeting on rehabilitation of
former prisoners, their problems during the sentence and post-prison
adaptation. The representative of the CAC, psychologist Zoya Mayilyan
made a report on penitential psychology, and told about the scientific
approach to this issue and her personal experience of work with
inmates in Karabakh.
During the discussion after the report the participants said when
at large these people must be helped not to feel as outcasts, the
government must provide them with employment, housing, etc. For only
this approach used in many countries is helpful to prevent the same
person from returning to prison.
The director of the CAC Albert Voskanyan says the psychologist of the
organization cannot visit penitentiaries any more. The NKR Police does
not authorize the CAC to hold the monthly monitoring of penitentiaries.
"Certainly, it does not mean that we will stop working in this strand.
Now we have launched a project of rehabilitation of former
inmates. We think it is as important to change the attitude of former
inmates toward the modern society and social difficulties through
post-penitentiary adaptation, as well as the attitude of the society
toward former inmates," Albert Voskanyan says.