Finding Education for Female Inmates : progress report, public part

Abstract

Within the framework of the multilateral EU-project Finding Education for Female Inmates/FEFI , ten partners from eight European countries cooperate on the subject of formal and informal education for adolescent and adult women in prison. Women in prison are a particularity underrepresented group due to their small number (3 to 7%) of the total prison population in all of the partners countries. The project aims to improve and increase participation in lifelong learning by female prisoners who are an integral component of a vulnerable and disadvantaged group - a socially stigmatized group, as well as prisoners and as women. As female persons have specific needs the main target is to get to know the conditions about their possibilities in prison towards improving their competences in a country comparison as well as to get to know more about the necessities to overcome resistances towards lifelong learning and to initiate changes and new procedures towards three key aspects: staff qualification, pedagogical support and prison structure.