Incarcerated individuals and education programmes in Nigeria: A task for social workers.

Autor: Uche IB; Department of Social Work, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria., Uche OA; Department of Social Work, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria., Okoye UO; Department of Social Work, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria., Ukoha-Kalu BO; Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria.; School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Jul 20; Vol. 18 (7), pp. e0288693. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 20 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288693
Abstrakt: Much is not known about education programmes for Nigerian incarcerated individuals. Consequently, different correctional institutions worldwide have different forms of correctional education offered to incarcerated individuals. Nigerian incarcerated individuals perceive that there are implementations of education programmes offered to them. However, little or nothing is known about how incarcerated individuals perceive these education programmes. To this end, this study ascertains the incarcerated individuals' perception of education programmes as well as the expectations of social work profession in ensuring that incarcerated individuals in correctional institutions are provided with quality education. In-depth interviews involving 20 convicted incarcerated individuals from Owerri correctional centre were conducted. Thematic analysis was used in analyzing data generated for the study. Findings show that education programmes are available and essential, but the quality of the programme does not go down well with the incarcerated individuals. It also revealed that incarcerated individuals were not allowed to decide on the type of education programme to be involved in. To this end, their participation in the programme is jeopardized. The findings further revealed that little or nothing is known about social workers in prison education. Therefore, the inclusion of correctional social workers as an integral part of education programmes that aim to reform, rehabilitate and reintegrate incarcerated individuals becomes necessary.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Uche et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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