As a Strategic Partnership supporting exchange of good practices, the project has the primary goal to allow partner organisations to share experiences, approaches and work methodologies in the field of adult inmates education. The exchange process aims to improve the staff profile of involved organizations, promoting self-awareness and increasing, from a qualitative and quantitative point of view, the competences of educators working in prison and in structures for criminal measures alternative to detention.

L’Ovile is a social cooperative established in Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy) in 1993, with the aim to promote the inclusion of disadvantaged people.

According to Italian Law 381/91 the organization is a cooperative of type A and B. Within sector A L’Ovile manages structures aimed at the rehabilitation of people subject to criminal measures alternative to detention. Structures are planned as educative setting aimed at social reintegration and reduction of crime risk. Labour integration in the cooperative is part of the educational path.

Since 2016 L’Ovile runs the Restorative Justice Centre “Anfora” of Reggio Emilia, which delivers mediation services between offender and victim in the field of juvenile delinquency and Justice of Peace; services supporting the reparation process in ordinary justice and in criminal enforcement; services of mediation in conflictive situations in the world of school, in social and health services, among relatives.

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