Eight new projects for prisoner rehabilitation

Eight new projects will be implemented in the prison system in order to rehabilitate and resocialise prisoners.

The projects were selected through the EU grant competition and will be presented in Tbilisi Marriot hotel today and attended by Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance Sozar Subari, Deputy Minister of Justice Mikheil Sarjveladze and a delegation of EU representatives.

"Eight projects will be presented today, out of which seven are directly related to us [Ministry of Corrections] and the other one concerns the Ministry of Justice,” Subari said before the event.

"These very important projects were selected through the EU grant competition and they absolutely fit the strategy chosen by our Ministry and the state in general. The projects aim to psychologically and socially rehabilitate released inmates and prisoners, as well as preparing them for release so that they are inclined to start a new life,” he said.

He said the Ministry and himself had personal experience working with the organisations that will carry out these projects.

"Our strategy is not to punish but to rehabilitate the prisoners and to prepare them for independent life,” Subari added.

From today, the new projects will begin to be implemented in Georgian Correctional Facilities.