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Raúl García Hémonnet/Editor
The guide 'When Leaving Prison' offers, in a visual and practical way, useful information for those released from prison to start a new stage in their lives.
The manual, developed by URJC students within the framework of a joint project with the Isla Merced Social Reintegration Center, highlights those groups of people who usually have greater difficulties in resuming cohabitation, such as drug addicts, foreigners or those over the age of 52 years. Having been developed "with a careful look at all those points that may be of special interest to ex-inmates", they point out from the Legal Clinic
In addition, this instrument is not only useful for prisoners, but also for those volunteers and people involved in the process of social reintegration.
In the presentation event, held during the III Conference on Social Justice (February 20, Madrid campus) the authors denounced the situation of helplessness in which prisoners find themselves when they are released. They argued that this lack of information places those released from prison in a situation of vulnerability, which creates an avoidable obstacle in the work of reinserting the inmates in society.
They hope that this guide will contribute to the destigmatization of prisoners, so that the penitentiary system meets its goal of reinsertion, and the people affected have a real opportunity to get out of the circle of marginalization and impoverishment that surrounds them.
The III Conference on Social Justice of the URJC have been organized by the Legal Clinic and have had the participation of Plena inclusión, CONCAES and members of the Ocaña 1 prison.
The session was chaired by the Vice Chancellor for Campus Community, Culture and Sports, Mercedes del Hoyo
One more proof of how the knowledge generated at the URJC can be used to alleviate the situation of vulnerable groups in society.