Inmates Given Opportunity for Recreation and Rehabilitation through Sports Fair Program

The purpose of the Sports Fair was to show and provide a varied programmatic offering to inmates in different sports disciplines of their choice, in which there were different interactive modules to develop various team and individual activities such as 3×3 basketball, table tennis, badminton, futsal. and chess. Likewise, there were information stands from the Seremía de Salud and the “Choose Living Healthy” program for Social Development.

The Seremi of Justice and Human Rights, Michelle Peutat, mentioned that this activity arose from a public-private working group (Mesa +R), with which a seminar was also organized last week to promote social reintegration like that alternative for public safety. He also recalled that this Sports Fair is the last of many activities carried out in all the penal units of the region, “developing different sports disciplines that seek to keep their population busy by cultivating this type of skills and contributing to mental health in the fulfillment of their duties.” criminal sanctions” he highlighted.

From the beginning, it was made clear that the purpose of opening recreational and entertainment spaces for inmates is to see these acts as a tool, present throughout the year in the Magallanes penitentiary units, in order to promote their reintegration. social, as indicated by the authorities present at the activity that took place from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the CP gym, led by the regional ministerial secretaries of Justice and Human Rights, of Sports, Social Development and Family and Health, plus some regional directors of their dependent services.

2023-11-15 22:13:37
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