THE PENITENTIARY AT SOMBOR
THE PENITENTIARY AT SOMBOR

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Security and defense, Evaluation research, Penal Policy
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Keywords: Serbia; prison; Sombor; KPZ; quality of life; security; lawfulness; social resettlement; outside world contact; personnel;
Summary/Abstract: The personnel shall be permanently encouraged to upgrade their knowledge and professional capacity through examples of positive management and by attending courses of inservice training, additional training, counselling, etc; The personnel should be trained to deal with special categories of prisoners or specialists should be engaged for the purpose; On selection and recruitment of the staff their personal suitability for the job should be primarily taken into account; At least one women officer should be employed full-time in the security service; More people should be employed full-time in the reformative training service with a view to enabling the existing staff to fully dedicate themselves to the prisoners' reformative training; admission procedures, therefore, should be entrusted to newly admitted professionals who would consult the existing staff whenever necessary; If appropriate to the prison's needs, more people should be engaged full-time in the training and employment service so as to avoid frequent overtime and thus improve relationship among the prison staff; Conditions of life and work of the prison personnel should be improved by providing more adequate salaries and employment benefits in view of the exacting nature of the work.

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