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Programme outcome the project contributes to: “Improved correctional services”.
The project will support the efforts of Bulgaria to fulfil the international standards related to places of detention established in the conventions and the recommendations of the Council of Europe with the aim to guarantee better conditions of life and work.
The project`s goals are:
- improvement of the conditions for inmates and detainees;
- alleviate overcrowded prisons;
- strengthening the implementation of the European framework decisions, agreements and recommendations, connected with a transfer of convicted people and respecting the human rights;
- improvement of the preparation for release and better social inclusion of inmates with a focus to vulnerable groups, including Roma;
- strengthening the role of the correctional services in the justice system.
The project will include the reconstruction or refurbishment works at 6 prison locations. The project shall include, inter alia, the following activities:
- Survey of the practices and exchange of experience with Norwegian partners.
- Renovation of the prisons in Plovdiv and Bobov Dol including open prison hostels and the separation as a half-way house;
- Reconstruction and renovation of a building owned by the prison in Vratsa, designated to host the prison hostel of open type;
- Reconstruction of a building and separation of a detention centre and probation service in the town of Petrich;
- Reconstruction and repair of prison hostel of open type “Stroitel” at the prison of Burgas and its separation as a half-way house;
- Reconstruction of existing production facility in the prison of Pazardzhik into a training centre for supporting the social inclusion of prisoners.