KUL expands its cooperation with the Detention Centre in Lublin

An agreement on cooperation has being signed on 12 May 2022 by the Rector of the Catholic University of Lublin, Rev. Prof. Mirosław Kalinowski, and the Director of the Detention Centre, Lt. Col. Anna Ausz. It will enable the students and employees of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Lublin to conduct re-socialisation programmes at the Detention Centre in Lublin. The programmes will concern, among other things, counteracting aggression, violence and addictions, preventing the negative effects of isolation and shaping social skills.  The agreement constitutes another stage in the cooperation between the university and the detention centre, which includes conducting studies for inmates.

As a result of the agreement, the educational and re-socialisation activities for detainees carried out by the detention centre will be complemented by an in-depth theoretical basis thanks to the involvement of employees and students of the Faculty of Social Sciences, in particular the Institute of Sociological Sciences. Apart from preparing new re-socialisation programmes, the university will, additionally, enable officers and employees of the detention centre to raise their professional qualifications within the framework of post-graduate studies, as well as through participation in academic classes. Moreover this cooperation will allow to conduct joint research in the field of social sciences.

Since 2013 the Catholic University of Lublin has made possible for inmates to study. Currently 26 inmates are studying family science in three years of first degree studies. Since October the Centre of Studies for Prisoners will be opened, which will enable imprisoned persons not only in the Detention Centre in Lublin, but also in other correctional facilities in Poland, to start their studies.