The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has launched an online collection of innovative practices in prison ...

Juba Central Prison, Wau Central Prison and Malakal Central Prison in South Sudan have partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to offer ...

In 2007, Dani Hedlund founded the Brink Literacy Project formerly known as Tethered by Letters. The Brink Literacy Project uses the power of storytelling to transform the lives of people on the brink.

MoodleBox in Detention was launched during the third phase of the Future Investment Programme. It is led by the Normandy Region in partnership with the Rectorate of Caen, the University Multimedia ...

The Uthai Thani Provincial Prison is nearly 100 years old. It is located in the Uthai Thani province of Thailand and houses approx. 750 prisoners. The Life-Changing Library is a lively library that ...

The UK charity Storybook Dads has existed since 2002 and is currently active in around 100 prisons, including women's prisons, young offender institutes and secure hospitals across the country. It ...

Auxilia, une nouvelle chance offers training by correspondence to people detained throughout France, with the help of hundreds of volunteers. Every year, the initiative allows some 2,100 learners to ...

In 2002, Rebecca Howlett, an educator in New York City, organized a programme that she called ‘Literacy for Incarcerated Teens’ (LIT) to equip a library in a juvenile detention centre in the Bronx. At ...

The Turning Pages programme is supported by Shannon Trust staff and a team of more than 100 volunteers (Shannon Trust, 2024). Since its launch in June 2015, the Turning Pages programme and reading ...

The Prison Libraries Programme was formed in 2015 on the back of a partnership between the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, and the Gendarmería, the institution in charge of prisons in Chile.

Aggrey Gisiora Mokaya, a Senior Research Scientist at Kenya Medical Research Institute, founded the Change Hub Innovation Centre in 2016. The Change Hub Innovation Centre leads a rehabilitation ...

As of October 2023, Norway had 58 prisons with around 3,000 inmates (World Prison Brief, 2023). Norway’s criminal justice system focuses on rehabilitating inmates and, at 20 per cent, it has one of ...