Poland’s Probacja Foundation has organised an annual Christmas theatre event in both of Krakow’s prisons, Nowa Huta Prison for women and Montelupich Prison for men. In both prisons, imprisoned parents worked with volunteers to prepare a play for their children, offering a space for parents to be creative and devise theatre of which they are … Read More
Storybooks Dads and Mums
This project was first launched in Poland in 2014. It is a rehabilitation programme that aims for the social readaptation of prisoner-parents. It focuses on family integration and a positive child-parent relationship. 50 prisoner-parents held in the prisons of the Małopolska region recorded a message or a story for their child(ren) on a CD. The … Read More
Petitions to the Ministry of Justice
Probacja submitted a petition to Poland’s Ministry of Justice requesting the implementation of COPE’s ‘Sentencing Toolkit’ in the country, as well as the distribution of all relevant COPE materials to Polish judges. Moreover, to protest against the status quo of the government concerning the reopening of prisons, Probacja wrote a letter to the Ministry of … Read More
Statistics Poland
Prison population total and prison rate per 100,000 are retrieved from Aebi, M. F., Cocco, E., Molnar, L. & Tiago, M. M., (2022). SPACE I – 2021 – Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics: Prison populations. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, Table 7.Estimated number of children separated from an imprisoned parent: extrapolation based on Champsaur, P., … Read More
What’s Behind the Wall
The book “What’s Behind the Wall”, the initiative of Hans and Karolina Lijklema, was published by the Polish Prison Service. 5000 copies have been printed and distributed by the Polish Prison Service to all of the prisons in Poland, to the children of inmates and to different prison libraries. A foundation distributed it to other … Read More