Promoting knowledge of history and assisting in the reintegration of the prison population are two of the objectives of the programme "...".Back with a new story". carried out by the Fundación CV MARQ in collaboration with the Alicante Penitentiary Centre.
This programme, which this year celebrates its fifth edition, will be held at the Fontcalent Penitentiary Centre from February to June, was presented by the managing director of the CV MARQ Foundation, Josep Albert Cortés, and the technician of the Didactic Unit of the same, José Mª Galán, together with the deputy director of treatment of the centre, Nuria Bru Salas.
Return with a new story aims to bring knowledge of history, as well as the cultural resources that the MARQ Foundation has available to the prison population, as a way of covering educational, recreational and motivational aspects, with which to prepare for their social reintegration, through knowledge of the environment to which they must return.
In this fifth edition, the programme has three phases. The first is a series of training sessions in the prison itself, on the contents of the MARQ from Prehistory to the Modern and Contemporary Ages, its temporary exhibitions and archaeological sites. These training sessions will be complemented with educational workshops related to the theme of each of the sessions. A second phase in which visits to the museum and archaeological sites will be made by groups of inmates who meet the necessary requirements, at the discretion of the Treatment Board, to take part in this activity, and a third and final phase with talks in the centre itself given by important personalities from Alicante's culture.
With this programme, the MARQ Foundation brings the archaeological museum and the archaeological sites of the Provincial Council closer to the inmates and people at risk of social exclusion in order to help and facilitate their re-socialisation, becoming a tool for the inmates to participate in the cultural life that is closest to them, as well as contributing to the training of men and women serving prison sentences and alternative measures to prison, favouring their personal development and self-esteem.
