(Baonghean.vn) - Along with management, detention, and education, vocational guidance, training, and skills transfer for inmates are always emphasized at Prison No. 6 to ensure that each inmate, after completing their rehabilitation period, receiving amnesty, or being released early, can reintegrate into the community and become a useful member of their family and society.
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| Prison No. 6, under the General Department of Police for Enforcement of Sentences and Judicial Support (General Department 8) - Ministry of Public Security, currently holds, educates, and rehabilitates over 4,000 inmates, including 1,000 female inmates. Upon entering the prison, based on age, health, gender, sentence, nature and severity of the crime, and the wishes and circumstances of each inmate, the prison management board will assign each person to study suitable trades such as: animal husbandry, farming, masonry, tailoring, sewing, bamboo mat making, artificial eyelash making, etc. |
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These occupations are relatively suitable for real-life social conditions outside the prison, as well as for the prisoners' place of residence. The implementation of vocational training, skills transfer, and organized labor production here ensures compliance with the law and the Labor Code: Prisoners work 8 hours per day; and are entitled to days off on holidays, Tet (Lunar New Year), Saturdays, and Sundays as prescribed.
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Under current conditions, the prison focuses on imparting technical and technological skills to inmates, ensuring productivity and product quality. Accordingly, the prison proactively builds workshops, facilitating management and education; especially for inmates with long sentences and multiple prior convictions; this reduces instances of inmates violating prison regulations, helping them feel secure and motivated to reform. (In the photo: Lieutenant Nguyen Thi Minh, in charge of the sewing team, instructing inmates)
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| Through their labor, the material and spiritual lives of prisoners are also improved as they enjoy a share of the fruits of their labor. In particular, the process of working and learning a trade brings them enthusiasm, joy, and hope, helping them discover and develop their strengths, and understand their true self-worth, which they had previously overlooked due to their deviant behavior. Now, through diligent work, they learn to appreciate the fruits of their own labor and that of others. |
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| To ensure that vocational training and skills transfer are truly effective, Prison No. 6 continuously innovates and diversifies its activities, shifting from purely simple agriculture and forestry to developing industry, handicrafts, and service labor... with the goal of keeping pace with the development trends of the outside world and providing inmates with vocational guidance suitable to their needs. (In the photo: Inmates are completing their embroidered artwork.) |
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Colonel Vo Thanh Vinh - Deputy Superintendent of Prison No. 6, said: Along with diversifying training programs, the prison is expanding its cooperation and linkages with businesses and vocational schools located in the area, completing projects approved by higher authorities with the determination to ensure that over 90% of inmates receive vocational training and vocational certificates right in the prison, so that when inmates are released from prison or granted amnesty, they can reintegrate into the community with stable jobs and income, support themselves and their families, and become useful members of society. (In the photo: The process of making artificial eyelashes requires patience, meticulousness, and skill) |
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| In fact, Prison No. 6 has collaborated with external companies and organizations to both help inmates learn trades and guarantee the sale of their products. At the same time, many inmates, after release, if they so desire, will be hired by these companies as regular workers, provided they possess the necessary skills and meet the job requirements. |
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| Over the years, many inmates, after serving their sentences, have been hired by companies such as Duc Phong Bamboo and Rattan Weaving Company, Hoang Long Sports Equipment and Ball Company, and have excelled in their skills and work. (In the photo: Inmates sewing balls) |
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It is clear that having skills and stable employment after release from prison is not only the dream of inmates but also the aspiration of society as a whole. Therefore, working and learning a trade in prison has helped them understand the value of labor, appreciate the fruits of their labor, and realize the necessity of rehabilitation and stable employment, making it easier for those who have made mistakes to reopen the door to life and build a new life. |
Tuan- Anh- D. Cuong
