Activities outside and inside
The main functions of PMI both inside and outside the prison are as follows:
Inside the prison
- Personal Counseling and Moral Instructions
- Letter writing for personal concern and healing the broken hearts
- Setting-up of a good library for mental growth
- Job-oriented training programs inside the prison
- Providing recreational facilities and vocational training facilities
- Conducting literary, arts and sports competitions
- Preparing the prisoners to write university exams
- Conducting medical camps
- Providing free legal aid
- Teaching home nursing
- Providing facilities for learning motor vehicle driving
- Arranging spiritual discourses.
Outside the prison
Our work does not end inside the prison but also covers extensively the life of a prisoner including his family after his release. As we know, a prisoner is branded as a criminal irrespective of his being guilty or not in committing a crime. Society and sometimes their own families are not ready to accept them. This will fuel further the criminal components in their character. Here PMI intervenes in their lives by giving them hope in life. This is particularly done by PMI through is different rehabilitation centres.
- Counseling and moral instructions in rehabilitation centres
- Family contacts through volunteers
- Family readjustment
- Treatment to the sick
- Reconciliation of prisoners with victims and their families
- Helping the children of the prisoners in their education
- Giving guarantee for the released prisoners at the police stations
- Marriage settlement
- Vocational training and job settlement
- Conducting awareness programmes for the general public
- Printing literature like books, magazines, etc.
Through these modes and programmes a criminal becomes a normal human being. The old habits lose their grip and socially accepted habits take their roots in them. Though the criminal accepts himself/herself still it is difficult for him/her to relate to the society as he/she is not equipped for that. No one will be ready to give him/her a job because either he/she is not qualified or his/her past history blocks it.
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