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The project "To Freedom with a Mentor" addresses the lack of care for people in and after serving a sentence of imprisonment, who for various reasons do not integrate back into society after release from prison and more than 60% of them relapse. The project contributes to the fulfillment of the Prison Concept by 2015 in the following two strategic goals:
1) Reduce crime recidivism through effective work with convicted and released prisoners and the creation of an environment for their successful reintegration into society
2) Create a comprehensive system of interconnection of penitentiary care, post-penitentiary care and crime prevention programs, on an inter-ministerial and multidisciplinary basis
The project will update, supplement and evaluate the current methodological procedures of the applicant for the reintegration program Mentoring and subsequently its actual implementation for 150 convicts in five prisons in the Czech Republic. Direct work with convicts (clients) in the mentoring program will be performed by 24 mentors according to the needs of clients approx. 6 months before the release of the convict from prison until approx. 6 months after release.
The project is focused on two target groups:
1. mentoring clients, which are adults serving a custodial sentence who are preparing to be released and persons released from serving a custodial sentence, including conditionally released, who will be supported under the mentoring program to facilitate reintegration into society after their release from serving a sentence
2. mentors, which are people with min. completed secondary education with GCSE, min. aged from 20 years without an entry in the extract from the criminal record, who will be trained and will subsequently ensure the implementation of the mentoring program