REINTEGRATION OF YOUTH RETURNING FROM PENAL INSTITUTIONS: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Abstract

This article examines the issue of reintegrating young people returning from correctional institutions into social life based on the practice of foreign countries. The study analyzes the reforms being implemented in this area in developed countries such as the USA, Canada, England, France, and Germany, as well as the cooperation among organizations, their interconnection, and the specific features of individual rehabilitation models. In these countries, psychological support, maintaining family relations, providing education and professional skills, ensuring employment, and implementing various national programs are recognized as the main directions in working with young people who have completed their sentences. In particular, individual supervision services and various social programs in the USA; centers supporting reintegration plans in Canada; programs aimed at preserving family relationships in England; as well as associations, centers, and government–public partnerships that assist in adapting to social life in France and Germany are widely developed. Based on the analysis of the article, several recommendations can be proposed for our system regarding the reintegration of young people who have served their sentences: strengthening close cooperation between governmental and non-governmental organizations in the process of readapting youth to society; introducing various long-term social programs for this category of young people; modernizing vocational training centers; and forming a stable preventive system aimed at reducing the likelihood of repeated offenses.