TIRANA, Jan.25 /ATA/- The Albania’s Minister of Justice, Etilda Gjonaj attended today the meeting on the launch of the Employment Program in the Penitentiary System, a program which started today after the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the General Directorate of Prisons and the Pro Export Albania Association, which owns a majority of the apparel and footwear companies.
This Memorandum of Cooperation aims to create employment opportunities for prisoners, in the framework of guaranteeing the acquisition, retention and development of job skills and professional knowledge, until the total sentence is completed.
In her remarks, Minister Gjonaj said that, today we are delivering on our promise and starting a new journey towards increasing the professional capacity, rehabilitation and reintegration of convicts, a priority for the Albanian Government and the Ministry of Justice.
The Minister of Justice Gjonaj stated that “during this mandate we undertook a profound transformational reform in the penitentiary system and after an extraordinary work in 2020 the penitentiary package and execution of criminal decisions was approved, thus fulfilling one of the most important conditions of this reform, the reform of the legal framework.” //a.i/
