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Cuba Pays Special Attention to Education in Penitentiaries.

CUBA, June 22, 2011.- In an effort by the Cuban government to turn prisons into schools, even the names of those facilities have been changed as well as how the people serving a sanction are called.

In Cuba, prisons are officially referred to as penitentiary centers, and prisoners are called interns as a concept to set the grounds for a civilized environment, of trust and optimism relying on the humans’ moral reserves for their reinsertion in society, lieutenant colonel Carlos Alberto Perez Rosabal, in charge of the penitentiary system, with the Ministry of Interior (MININT).

Perez Rosabal said a top priority for the Luis Ramirez Perdigon National School of the Penitentiary System is to train Guide Educators and Penal Educators who will be in charge of preparing the inmates so that they return to their community better people than what they were before entering the facility as established by the country’s penitentiary policy.

Those who enter the school for the one-year program are carefully selected after a comprehensive evaluation of their abilities and skills, knowledge, health conditions and motivations for becoming this type of educator.

The school offers undergraduate programs for prison officers leading to a degree course on Law specializing on penitentiary treatment. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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