Legal Advice: Prisoners’ right to education, reforms Thursday, 22 September 2011 01:45

There is no doubt that prisoners are people who need to be reformed and integrated back into society. This can be done through their education, rehabilitation and training to do jobs that provide an income which will prevent them from committing the crimes again and contribute to the security and safety in the community. Therefore, the penal institution plays its role in the best way and becomes a home to reform, refine and bring back the convict to his senses in order to make him a good individual who is useful for the society in which he lives.

Therefore, the management of penal and correctional institutions at the Ministry of Interior makes an agreement with the competent authorities in education and training for the development of curricula and training for the prisoners. The institution educates the prisoners and trains them taking into account their age, willingness and the duration of their sentences. If the prisoner desires to study, he must be supplied with books which he needs and helped with the process of study. He must be allowed to attend his scheduled examinations. The administration must enable the prisoners to benefit from the various media and organise programmes, especially seminars, educational lectures and other entertainment programmes. The prisoner shall be granted a financial incentive if he could, while he was in the institution, memorise the Quran or parts of it or he presented a research or a distinct artistic work or invented a craft or profession or received a general or university or higher certificate according to the rules and procedures prescribed by the regulations of the Law of penal and reforming institutions no. 3 / 2009.