1. TREATMENT IN PRISONTREATMENT IN PRISON
PROGRAMMES OF SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL
ATTENTION IN PRISON.
Experiences and good practice in the areaExperiences and good practice in the area
of the Penitentiary System.of the Penitentiary System.
INTERNATIONAL GRUNDTVIG PROJECTS IN PERMANENT EDUCATION FOR
ADULTS
THE HEART FAR AWAY
WITHOUT BARRIERS
NEED OF RESETLEMENT OF REFUGEES IN EUROPE
NO MORE TEARS

2. PENITENTIARY SYSTEM.
The programmes of socio-educational attention in prison
PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).
Education implies a complex interactive and multi-disciplinary process between
the person and the society.
To educate in and for a society that creates opportunities for the personal development, promotes
the participation of all the people by means of formation, work, culture, and guarantees the basic
rights, in short, it facilitates a decent life. Educating, socialising a person who is freely
compromised with him/ herself and with that society in the respect of the basic rights and liberties.
In this framework, the privative penalties of freedom have certain goals and duration. To make the
most of this time to “re-educate and re-socialise” imprisoned people and intervene in each of the
areas which facilitate the integration, is, perhaps, one of the highest compromises and
responsibilities of the society and the Spanish penitentiary system: to create cohabitation,
educational and formative work, therapeutic and cultural spaces that make possible their
preparation for life in freedom.

3. Offenders’ description
• 500 offenders
• Almost 50 nationalities
• About 30 years old
• Low educational level
• Low level of work formation
• Deficient work habits
Specific, personal, family, social problems:
• Drug-addiction
• AIDS
• Dual pathology
• Unemployment, precarious jobs,,
exclusion, discrimination …
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Problems…
Low educational
level
Def. work habits
Def work formation

4. PENITENTIARY GENERAL ORGANIC LAW.
LO 1/1979, 26th September , BOE 05/10/1979.
TITLE III OF THE TREATMENT
Art. 59
1. The penitentiary system consists on the amount of activities directly aimed at the
achievement of the re-education and social re-habilitation of the convicts.
2. The treatment intends to make the inmate a person with the intention and
capacity to live respecting the penal Law, as well as satisfy his necessities.
http://www.mir.es/INSTPEN/
http://www.mir.es/INSTPEN/INSTPENI/Publicaciones/instrucciones_y_circulares.html
TREATMENT IN PRISON
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5. “If you have contact with somebody for what he is, he will go on being so.
If you approach him as if he were what he could be… he will”
Goethe.
PRINCIPLES OF PROCEEDING*
The proceeding of a penitentiary professional in any position has to necessarily fulfill the three following
requirements:
1st.-To treat the offenders with the respect and consideration demanded by the human
rights, that is, to treat them in a human and decent way.
2nd.- To guarantee the accomplishment of each of their rights that belong to them as
inmates of a prison.
3rd.-To demand from them the same treatment of respect and consideration both
towards the rest of the inmates and the other people related to the penitentiary
work, as well as the accomplishment of their duties.
Víctor Fraga Gayoso.
* On account of the courses of Work Health organized by the “D.G”. of “II.PP”. in Madrid, in November 1996, for
Governors of Prisons, Representatives of the Workers and Personal and Prevention Delegates.
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6. ACTIVITIES AIMED AT RE-EDUCATION AND SOCIAL REHABILITATION
– MEDICAL ASSISTANCE : bio-psychosocial orientation
– INSTRUCTION, EDUCATION, CULTURE AND SPORT
– TREATMENT PROGRAMMES
– WORK FORMATION
– JOBS
Within the established legal framework and the limits demanded by:
•THE REGIME OF PRISONS
•THE SECURITY OF THE ESTABLISHMENTS
•Administrative, legal and media controls
• D.G. II. PP.
• J .V. P and Defensor of people.
•The media.
TREATMENT IN PRISON.
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PRISON OF MONTERROSO(LUGO)

7. “Show me your prisons and I will
tell you the society that you
have".
Foucault

8. CULTURAL INTERVENTION
PERMANENT CENTRE FOR ADULTS
– More than 120 offenders take part either going to the school centre or by mail.
– Different educational levels are taught: basic education (literacy teaching, Spanish as a
foreign language, encouragemet to read, ESO) and even University studies through the
UNED.
– A library with more than 12,000 books is available.
– Due to the increasing number of foreign offenders( nowadays, more than 70%), and since
many of them don’t understand Spanish, we try to foster their access to school so that they
can learn some basic knowledge about our language and in this way, to have access to
other resources.
– Coordination of different International Cooperation Projects in permanent education of
adults (Grundtvig).
– http://theheartfaraway.blogspot.com
– http://withoutbarriers.blogspot.com
– http://grundtvig2009-2011.blogspot.com
““Every school that is opened is a prison that is closed”. – Domingo F. Sarmiento.Every school that is opened is a prison that is closed”. – Domingo F. Sarmiento.
Víctor Hugo.Víctor Hugo.
TREATMENT IN PRISON
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9. Classrooms in the prison of Monterroso.
SCHOOL/CULTURAL EDUCATION
To achieve universal primary education
is one of the Objectives of Development in the Millennium, stated in the
Declaration of the Millennium of the United Nations
TREATMENT IN PRISON.
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10. Computer rooms and workshops in the prison of Monterroso.
SCHOOL/CULTURAL INTERVENTION
The Culture Department tries to foster reading among the offenders of
Monterroso. La Voz de Galicia. 29.04.2006.
TREATMENT IN PRISON.
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PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO)

11. TREATMENT IN PRISON.
The programmes of socio-educational attention in the prison.
PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).
TREATMENT PROGRAMMES
• Prevention of suicides.
• “GAD”.
• Sexual Aggressors.
• Mistreaters at home.
• Youngsters.
• Therapy with animals.
• Work formation and employment.
• Leisure, sport, art and culture.
• Psychological and Social help.
• Classifications, permissions to go out, derivations, guided tours and prison
visits…

12. TREATMENT PROGRAMMES
Therapy with animals
Sunday 10th February 2008
Lugo
Two dogs become therapists in
the prison of Monterroso.
Ada and Junio have been improving the
life quality of four inmates for a few
months.
Autor: X. Carreira
TREATMENT IN PRISON
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PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO)

13. TREATMENT PROGRAMMES
Organized visits
TREATMENT IN PRISON
The programmes of socio-educational attention
in the prison.
PRISON OF MONTERROSO(LUGO)

14. Veterans of the “ Club Deportivo Lugo y Selección de internos del C.P of Monterroso.
“(2007)
The veterans of the “Club Deportivo Lugo” visited the prison to play two
matches with the inmates.
SPORTS
CULTURAL
INTERVENTION
TREATMENT IN PRISON
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PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO)

15. ART WORKSHOPART WORKSHOP
PRISON OF MONTERROSOPRISON OF MONTERROSO
ARTISTIC-CULTURAL INTERVENTION
The sculptor Díaz Fuentes will be in
charge of a workshop of plastic arts
in the prison of the village.
H. GARCÍA. MONTERROSO 24/10/2007
The sculptor José Díaz Fuentes will give
classes in a workshop about plastic arts in
the prison of Monterroso.
Díaz Fuentes, president of the UNESCO
Centre of Sarria and organiser of the third
series of the “Salón de Otoño de París” in
the French capital.

16. PROGRAMME OF INITIATION TO CLASSICAL MUSICPROGRAMME OF INITIATION TO CLASSICAL MUSIC
PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).PRISON OF MONTERROSO (LUGO).
CULTURAL INTERVENTION
The offenders of Monterroso vibrated with Chaikovski
Lucía R. Ínsua
Date 9/8/2007

17. PROGRAMME OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT
PROFESSIONAL-TRAINING INTERVENTION
PRODUCTIVE WORK ACTIVITY:
PAID WORK
The following courses of professional formation were offered in 2008/09:
• Gardener
• Painter
• Tiling welder
• Welder of stainless steel
• Office automation
• Iron Worker
• Crane operator
• Food handlers
• Socio-work insertion
• Computer programming
• About 15/20 inmates are selected to take part in each of the courses. These courses last
three hundred hours on average. Thus, each year, the number of inmates that participate
in courses of professional, occupational formation exceeds one hundred inmates
TREATMENT IN PRISON.
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18. Live Radio Programme from
Monterroso

19. Inmates from Monterroso Visit
Reformatory Centers in Ourense

20. Newspaper Article. “La Voz de Galicia” with the
Members of the Grundtvig Project from Monterroso.

21. Galician Television with “The Heart
Faraway” in Monterroso

22. Honorary Mention by the General
Secretary of Prisons in Spain.

23. “What has to be learnt to know how it is done,
first has to be done to be learnt”.
Aristotle .
As a result of the society in which it is developed , a great number of professionals
believe in this model of intervention and in the offenders that take part in these
activities.
A descriptive exposition that reflects, or at least, tries to reflect a social reality in
prison, a job which is always in evolution, imperfect, dynamic, alive and unfinished.
TREATMENT IN PRISON
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24. THANKFULNESS TO :
• Prison’s staff
• Instructors of the Formation courses
• Collaborator organizations, charities and volunteers.
• Collaborator companies and their workers: ACERIAS AS PONTES, PUMADE,
VALEO, VARSAN …
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All of us have been awarded with:
Bronze Medal to the penitentiary merit 2006
Silver Medal to the penitentiary merit 2007
Honorific Mention to the Good Practices 2008 and 2009
Adana, 28/10/2010