Inmates Rehabilitation and Care Programs

Inmates' rehabilitation program

•  Vocational training
• Craft concerns
• Plant and animal production
• Social insurance 

- Academic Education

The Department of Rehabilitation and correction Centers in cooperation with the Ministry of Education seeks to create and provide compulsory education and literacy programs and cultural courses in the rehabilitation centers, there are three regular schools and six stations for the knowledge of computer education center,   there is the library which contains cultural and useful books including :

• Mutanabi School: located in the Swaqa Rehabilitation Center, opened in 1996
• Atwawba School : located in Mwaqar/1 center opened in 2008
• Al-Huda School: Located in Umm al-Lulu center opened in 2009

The Academic education section at rehabilitation centers performs the following duties:

1. Supervising the schools at rehabilitation centers in cooperation with ministry of education regarding education programs and curricula.
2. Organizing the education and student affairs (inmates) especially, those who want to pass the secondary school certificate.
3. Following up the development of educational, academic and practical programs and systems.
4. Following up literacy centers at prisons.

Many inmates want to pass the secondary study examination benefiting from the cooperation between the department and Ministry of Education. The examination is held free in well-equipped halls prepared by ministry of education.

The following table explains the numbers of inmates who joined the secondary study examination during the period 2015-2017 :

Inmates' care programs

Cultural care: 

A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Public Security Directorate , represented by the Department of correction and Rehabilitation Centers, and the Ministry of Culture. One of the most prominent dimesions of cooperation was to provide inmates with books, magazines, and publications issued or supported by the Ministry, and to hold training workshops (arts, drawing, traditional crafts, music, and acting) and contribute to issuing the inmate magazine. The ministry also contributed to the purchase of artistic performances that are shown on the stages of rehabilitation centers, and covered the cultural competitions for the inmates.

A memorandum of understanding was also signed between the Public Security Directorate, represented by the Department of Rehabilitation Centers, and the Royal Film Commission (Cinema for All) in order to provide an opportunity for inmates  to watch various Jordanian, Arab and international films, and to provide a cultural space by viewing the content of the films. This has already been done showing many films in several centers prepared for this purpose. An agreement was also signed with Abdul Hameed Shoman Library to support the libraries of reform and rehabilitation centers. One of its results was the provision of a set of books to the various libraries at an estimated value of (43,000) dinars, and training (25) of the library officials in the reform and rehabilitation centers on the basics of working in libraries.

:Religious care

Most of the inmates belong to environments in which religion occupies a great place. Therefore, discipline and religious guidance is one of the most important means of reform and the return of the inmate to the right path.

The Directorate of Public Security signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites with multiple dimensions of cooperation, the most important of which are the areas of guidance and religious guidance for inmates at rehabilitation centers. for women, as well as working to open a model Quran house in each of the  centers of Swaqa, Al-Muwaqqar and Umm Al-Lulu.

In every correction center, there is a religious guide who educates and disciplines the inmates through religious lectures and holding courses as an essential entry point towards raising awareness and quitting deviant practices and criminal behavior. Courses for memorizing the Noble Qur’an and the Prophet’s biography have been held in all  centers, in addition to the existence of a mosque . The centers are provided with preachers and counselors, especially those who are able to provide individual guidance.

: health care

The Ministry of Health provides health care and treatment for inmates , For this purpose, health centers have been established in all correction and rehabilitation centers. The Ministry of Health, through the health directorates, is responsible for supervising the centers that fall under its jurisdiction and monitoring the health conditions related to the health center's cleanliness, food and clothes of the inmates. The center doctor shall conduct a medical examination on the inmate and submit a report on his health condition in any of the following cases:

When the inmate enters the correction and rehabilitation center, before his release, and when he is transferred from one center to another.
Before placing the inmate in solitary confinement and after removing him from it.
At the request of any judicial authority or any competent authority.
At the request of the center manager.
upon request of the guest.
If the inmate's condition requires treatment in a hospital, the center shall be managed and based on the doctor's report, the inmate shall be transferred to the hospital and returned to the center after completing his treatment. The inmate shall be treated at the expense of the general budget through the allocation of funds for this purpose.

The Public Security Directorate has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Health and the International Committee of the Red Cross, with the general aim of developing health centers in the Swaqa and Women's Correction and Rehabilitation Centers, in addition to two wings for inmates of the Correction and Rehabilitation Centers (women - men) in Al-Bashir Hospital.

The agreement has special objectives, as follows:

Provide adequate access to health care services for inmates inside and outside correction and rehabilitation centers.
Implementing a model of the primary health care system with its three components: prevention, education, and treatment, decentralized reform and rehabilitation of Swaqa, and women, to be applied in other reform and rehabilitation centers.
Capacity building of health care providers.
Improve the referral system for external health facilities.
From time to time, a free medical day is held in the rehabilitation centers in cooperation with civil society institutions that include all medical specialties.