Reintegration activities of the Hungarian Prison Service – the best practices of the Szeged Strict and Medium Regime Prison

Abstract

In the course of the reintegration of prisoners, the Szeged Strict and Medium Regime Prison draws on the experience gained during the past of the institute, and therefore supports the prisoners who are willing to volunteer during the time of their punishment and cooperate voluntarily in achieving the goals of reintegration. In addition to classical reintegration activities - primary school education, specialized training, employment, therapeutic employment - the Szeged Strict and Medium Regime Prison has a centuries-old tradition of participating in cultural and leisure programs. In the practice of the Prison, we implement the reintegration programs of the Hungarian Prison Service, taking into account the expected individual activity of the prisoners, enforcing the imposed judgment and at the same time excluding the disadvantage hindering factors as far as possible and mediating the socially accepted positive values. Amongst the Hungarian prisons the Szeged Prison was the first to introduce college and university education for the long-termed convicts, and introduced several reintegration programs that had an incentive to develop a long-term treatment concept for sentenced prisoners.