Enhancing Human-centered Penitentiary System in Georgia (PID128)

1.30pm – 2pm EDT, 26 October 2023 ‐ 30 mins

Workshop Session

Innovative digital services: Digital Technology in the Georgian Penitentiary System has seen rapid development in the last few years: e-learning for prisoners, vocational online education, digital services within the penitentiary and much more. Digital higher education - the results of the study on the higher education of convicts, with the aim of measuring the effectiveness of the re-integration of inmates involved in higher education. This is one of the main directions that the system intentionally chose and is trying to integrate systematically into the system.
 
Sport Management Strategy - supporting a healthy lifestyle in PEs that can prevent various offending behaviors. Healthy lifestyle and sport management strategies aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles among prisoners.
 
Existing practice for staff professional development and motivational systems - which includes improvement of working conditions for the staff, providing the staff with financial or nonfinancial benefits, organizing capacity building and sport activities for the staff regularly.