ANNUAL SPECIAL REPORT 2018 27 vii. Schools Members of the NPM team had the opportunity to ascertain the good functioning of Second Chance Schools, whose beneficial effects are not limited to the use of the prisoners' time, but also contribute to their rehabilitation after release. Many schools have been able to attract institution donations and constructive cooperation with local bodies. Of particular note are the following activities: • At the Corfu Detention Facility, a Digital Library has been developed in collaboration with the Ionian University. • At the Larissa Detention Facility, a gallery of works by inmates has been established. • At the Trikala Detention Facility, an exemplary computer room has been set up and prizes have been won in international student film contests. • The Corinth and Patras detention facilities and Special Juvenile Rural Detention Facility of Kassaveteia (Volos) also have multiple activities. Equally important is the ability of detainees to continue their studies at local Evening Lyceums, as well as in the Greek Open University. However, it is noted that some schools do not have educational material adapted to the needs of adults and young people who attend the early classes of primary school or for students who are not familiar with or have little knowledge of the Greek language. This complicates the educational process and reduces its effectiveness, despite the efforts of the teachers to cover the above gaps on their own initiative, as in the case of the Corinth Detention Facility. At the junior high school level, similar problems result in inadequate coverage of teaching needs, with a small number of educators teaching all of the classes. The satisfactory impression from some detention facilities is countered by the existing inequality in providing such educational benefits, as some detention facilities have not yet been able to establish a school. A major issue in the uninterrupted development of the educational process in detention is the provision to prisoners of continuous and uninterrupted monitoring. The NPM is often the recipient of protests from detainees whose transfer to a detention facility without schooling services has resulted in an abrupt break in their educational progress and has thus resulted in an aggravation of their psychological condition. Until the full development of schools is

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