The state of education for convicts in the Lviv region

For convicts to obtain a full general secondary education, 8 general educational institutions are operating in correctional colonies of the Lviv region, in which 848 convicts were enrolled at the beginning of the 2007/2008 academic year. 72 pedagogical staff work in them.

The total number of convicts who do not have a secondary education in the region’s institutions is 1039, which in percentage terms equals 81.6%.

The management of the Department’s administration and penal institutions in the Lviv region has sent letters to a number of state and public organisations with a request to assist in providing the educational institutions at correctional colonies with visual aids, computer equipment, textbooks, and literature. They have received promises to provide assistance with equipment and literature in the near future.

As of the beginning of the 2007/2008 academic year, 3 men were studying in higher educational institutions via correspondence.