Georgian Probation Agency Head, Deputy Justice Minister discuss domestic system with Lithuanian officials
The officials also reviewed a crime prevention course for school teachers, developments for a juvenile referral centre and in the area of restorative justice, new rehabilitation programmes and matters related to house arrest and community service practices. Photo: Georgia's National Agency for Crime Prevention, Enforcement of Non-Custodial Sentences and Probation
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“Significant achievements and initiatives” of the Georgian probation system were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between Lado Kheladze, the Head of Georgia's National Agency for Crime Prevention, Enforcement of Non-Custodial Sentences and Probation, Buba Lomuashvili, the country’s Deputy Justice Minister, and Lithuanian officials.
The Agency said the meeting featured Rokas Uscila, the Vice-Minister of Justice of Lithuania and Romas Ostanavicius, the Director of the Lithuanian Probation Service, together with heads of structural units of the bodies.
The sides also discussed “innovative” projects and a “number of directions” of the Agency's activities, it added.
The innovative technology of PROBBOX - an orientation course for probationers - was introduced to the Lithuanian officials at the Public Service Hall in the country’s capital of Tbilisi.
The officials also reviewed a crime prevention course for school teachers, developments for a juvenile referral centre and in the area of restorative justice, new rehabilitation programmes and matters related to house arrest and community service practices.
Lado Kheladze, the Head of Georgia's National Agency for Crime Prevention, Enforcement of Non-Custodial Sentences and Probation, highlighted achievements of the domestic probation system at the sixth World Congress on Probation and Parole in the Netherlands last week.
Georgia’s Justice Ministry has received 10 devices providing electronic control and services of probationers and 50 pieces of monitoring tags for those under house arrest from the United States Embassy.
Convicts and employees of penitentiary institutions across Georgia will receive public services at their facilities in a project promoted as a “Georgian innovation” by the Justice Ministry.
The European Probation Confederation (CEP) has published an article about PROBBOX, an innovative service launched by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia in six cities in December, calling the initiative a “large-scale reform” of the probation system in the country.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Tuesday told Imedi TV the implementation of the new penitentiary code was “one of the great achievements of modern Georgia”.
Ongoing reforms in Georgia’s penitentiary system, including efforts aimed at ensuring accessible education and digital university for inmates, were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between the country’s Justice Minister Rati Bregadze and heads of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Monday unveiled a new “small-sized, highest European-standard” penitentiary facility designed for 700 convicts in the western Georgian town of Laituri in Guria region.