ESF National Board for the reintegration of persons
under criminal prosecution
RESULTS FROM NATIONAL SURVEY ON PROJECTS SUPPORTING
THE INTEGRATION OF (EX) OFFENDERS
GOOD PRACTICES FOR THE INCLUSION OF PERSONS UNDER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
Identification of the problematic area
The project focuses on the problem of family difficulties in the prison context. First of all, it intends to provide offenders and their children the tools and competences that are necessary to cope up with the problem of accessing the labour market; secondly, it intends to promote business initiatives within the prison.
Project aims
- to help offenders address the work integration issue, by providing them with a real job opportunity and vocational qualifications within the “cinema-television set” and “studios” professions (carpenters, electricians, light engineers, etc.);
- to involve the offenders’ children in training and work integration pathways; to offer offenders and the companies of Basilicata the opportunity to promote business initiatives within the prison; to attract national and international productions to provide the regional community and the local audiovisual sector with incentives.
Short description of the project
The project intends to organize “studios” within the prison and to make them available to Southern Italian cinema-television operators and crews and to hire workers and technicians trained within the framework of the project. A few examples of the activities that have been carried out are: setting up of the Regional Agency for the cinema & television industry “ARIA” 3 (www.aria3.eu) promoted by the partners, the Department of Training Work Culture and Sport of the Basilicata Region and by the PRAP of Basilicata; involvement of the District Penitentiary of Potenza in the “XV edition of the 2009Medfilm Festival” in Rome, with the production of a short film on the issue of cultural integration whose title is “Three and a Half Minutes” (directed by Luca Curto and with Neri Marcoré as leading actor); organization of the photographic exhibition-catalogue “LocKation” on the subjects related to criminal prosecution in Basilicata.
