Tunis- Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS) Seminar on rehabilitation and development of female workers in prisons and rehabilitation institutions kicked off on Monday in Tunisia with the participation of 73 female workers in prisons and rehabilitation institutions from seven Arab countries including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Tunisia, Iraq, Libya, and Mauritania.
The five-day seminar is organised by NAUSS in co-operation with the Tunisian General Directorate of Prisons and Rehabilitation and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Office for the Gulf Co-operation Council Region (OGCCR).
The seminar aims to identify and address the most prominent challenges in prisons and reform centres, keep pace with the latest rehabilitation, reform, and reintegration programmes offered to inmates, and introduce methods of psychological and social care for post-inmates and released prisoners, in addition to a community partnership to prevent former inmates from returning to crime.
During the event, NAUSS will identify the most prominent challenges in prisons and means to address them, with a focus on the latest rehabilitation and reform programmes and reintegration provided to female inmates.
NAUSS is keen, through its research, to promote and develop alternatives to freedom-depriving punishments within criminal legislation and to allow criminal justice agencies to apply them as alternative punishments in addition to working on “humanising punishment.”
The university discussed several master’s and doctoral theses, and issued several refereed scientific studies in that regard.
