The EPRIS project, approved in January 2014, originates from the political will of the Portuguese Justice Minister to incentivize innovative projects to implement in Prisional Establishments and stems from the setting of a Cooperative Protocol between the Justice Minister, Reinserção e Serviços Prisionais, a Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto and the Piaget Institute.
" Digital inclusion for me, I think, is the future. It makes perfect sense that everyone has the opportunity to experience this type of situation (...). I think this is very important in the prison, because it is like this: if we are here and if the objective is to reinsert people, then it is a great form of reinsertion, and should be extended to more people. "
(formanda 1, EPRIS 1 )
" We, out of here, going to classes, I was lucky to be with [name] in the class, and we always kept this interaction, more or less, within our possibilities (…) Now I’ve stopped having my friend on the side [name] ], she was the one who would explain some things to me... "
(formanda 1, EPRIS 1 )
" Anything, a letter that we want to send at work, a list of expenses, an account, household expenses, we can put it in Excel, what we spend, in the bank. I learned all this at the time, a master's thesis, I can still be a lawyer or a judge... "
(formanda 1, EPRIS 1 )
" Now, I've got a little bit out of the habit of using the computer, but it’s OK. I also knew a little about Word, about Excel I knew a little more because I’ve already had one year of ICT here, so I knew a little more. (…) I’ve learned a lot of things, when I searched, I found. "
(formanda 2, EPRIS 1 )
" Honestly, I have this idea of opening a restaurant in parallel to my work, my profession, and I found it really cool to learn how to do maths, multiplication, percentages. "
(formanda 3, EPRIS 1 )
" I'm going to finish the 12th grade and go to university. "
(formanda 4, EPRIS 1 )
" Until I began the course I was like... maybe I'll give up because I'm not capable (...) our will keeps changing. I speak for myself, I was inactive for so long in terms of anything connected studying, and this has changed my perspective, I’ve even come to think it was possible. "
(formanda 1, EPRIS 2 )
" A positive aspect I’ve retained from this training was, in fact, an e-learning training that I had never done before. This one was b-learning, but I had never done any training in this context either. "
(formanda 1, EPRIS 2 )
" I think this requires a lot of personal organization, effort. Also without effort, nothing can be achieved. And, when a person wants something a lot and makes an effort, I think that's when they eventually get something. It was in this sense I’ve done it, I’ve tried hard to get something... "
(formanda 3, EPRIS 2 )
" Everything is done online... The complaints book as well. "
(formanda 5, EPRIS 2 )
" Computers are used in any work. Both at personal and professional level, it is an asset. "
(formanda 2, EPRIS 3 )
" It is a commitment people just have to make... "
(formanda 3, EPRIS 3 )
" New technologies are always advancing and nowadays everything is done on a computer. I can have better results to help my son, as well as other people. "
(formanda 5, EPRIS 3 )