Intervention Strategy

 

Intramural Intervention would involve working with the prisoners inside the prison. The intervention revolves around holistic health, livelihood empowerment, and social reintegration.

The components of inside prison intervention would be:

  • Psychosocial and spiritual well-being of the prisoners and the prison officials
  • Sensitization of the prison officials about the rehabilitation process
  • Development of professional and humanitarian approaches and skills of the prison officials
  • Developing prisoner friendly infrastructure and functioning (a part of the prisoners' rights within the prison)
  • Livelihood empowerment
  • Physical health intervention

Extramural Intervention would involve socio-family reintegration of the prisoner and would be designed to ensure the mainstreaming of the prisoner once he/she is outside the prison. The components of outside prison intervention would be:

  • Reintegration of the prisoner with his community, family, and to himself
  • Follow-up of his holistic development initiated during his correctional process while in the prison
  • Lending follow-up support for his professional empowerment

The primary goal of social reintegration programmes is to provide prisoners with the support and supervision that they need to stop committing crimes,  reintegrate  successfully into  society,  and avoid returning to criminal behaviour. Preparation for re-entry into society, for example, should obviously commence before an offender is released.

After release, interventions should facilitate a smooth transition from the prison to the community, reinforce the gains achieved in prison through treatment and educational programmes, and continue until reintegration is successfully completed. The families of offenders are a potential source of support and assistance upon re-entry into the community.

To prepare offenders to re-enter society includes:

  • Education and Skill development,
  • Mental health care,
  • Substance abuse treatment,
  • Job training, counselling, and mentoring.

These programs are more effective when they are focused on a complete diagnostic and assessment of offenders.

The stakeholders for this project would be inmates and their families and prison officials, staff, and their families as well the local community and society. It would primarily focus on inmate rehabilitation, vocational training, and socio-family reintegration with the assistance of experienced counsellors. In addition, counselling sessions for dealing with anxiety, stress, and depression would be provided for jail authorities, staff, and families, which would aid them in balancing their job and personal lives.

All participants in this project must develop a relationship that can be seen through a vision of partnership and social inclusion. Prisoners will develop the attitudes and skills necessary to change through the socially inclusive attitude, ultimately providing the most remarkable social return.

Rehabilitation is a very serious process and cannot be achieved by a single stakeholder. It can certainly not be achieved by the prisoner himself or by his family alone. It is a joint effort of society, the community, the police, the convicts' families and himself. Individual rehabilitation benefits not only him but also society.