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AHC
FINALIZED THE TRAINING SESSIONS IN LEZHA
PRE-TRIAL INSTITUTION
 28.06.2007
On 31 May – 1 June 2007, in
the premises of Lezha pre-trial detention,
Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) organized the
fifth and final working session[1]
focusing on working out protocols on some
serious situations, drafting special daily
programs for different categories of pre-trail
detainees with a special focus on minors,
offering suggestions to the labor projects to
the working group in Lezha prison. During this
activity the overall written evaluation was
conducted with all the participants in the
previous training sessions. The targeted group
was the middle and high management staff of
pre-trial wing including here all heads of civil
and uniform staff and all representatives of the
education sector of this prison[2].
The experts Jan van den Brand and Cees Boeij,
both General Governors in the Dutch Prison
Service with a long relevant experience were
invited to provide this training. AHC was
represented by Mrs. Edlira Papavangjeli,
Programs’ Coordinator who moderated this
activity.
Experts brought models of
written protocols on certain serious situations
in pre-trial detention facilities and prison
such as protocols on integrity, suicide,
infectious diseases etc. They explained the
advantages of having such clear and transparent
protocols for all the staff in penitentiary
institutions and what could be modified for
Lezha institution. A considerable time of this
training seminar was devoted to enriching the
existing daily and weekly programs of Lezha
pre-trial wing and making it flexible to the
needs of special groups such as minors.
Recommendations on different types of programs
as integral part of the daily and weekly
programs were presented by the experts.
Participants drafted in working groups one type
of protocol which will be used in Lezha
institution in cases of various situations
concerning suicides. In addition, working groups
worked on drafting three different proposals for
an improved daily program in Lezha institution
which were discussed and commented by the
experts.
Upon the request of the high
management team of this institution the second
day focused on a thorough analysis done by the
experts using SMART and SWOT instruments on two
labor proposals drafted by a working group of
this institution. They were provided with
knowledge and skills in evaluating such
proposals even in the future to make them
specific, measurable, acceptable, realistic and
time limited.
Based on the written
evaluation of all training seminars conduced in
a period of one year in Lezha pre-trial wing
with the basic uniform staff, around 80% of the
participants evaluated these seminars as very
profitable for their work. They all considered
these seminars as good opportunities where
practice was inter-correlated very well with
theory. They all expressed that they have
benefited a lot from all these training sessions
in their daily work and were of the opinion that
such training should be part of their further
capacity building in the future.
[1]
This working session was realized in the
framework of the AHC’s project “A Human
Rights Approach to Pre-Detention
Management” financed by the Human
Rights and Democracy Fund, State
Department, USA.
[2]
With this session AHC finalized the
overall training that AHC realized
during 2006-2007 with the administration
of the Lezha pre-trial wing. The overall
goal with this activity was to make
Lezha pre-trial a model of good
management of the pre-trial system in
Albania
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