Is improving prison leavers’ employment rates a priority for your jurisdiction?

Yes it is. The Austrian penal system always strives to provide inmates with educational programs and work during their time in prison in order to facilitate successful reintegration into society and the labor market after prison.

Does your jurisdiction record the rate of employment for prison leavers on release?

No. The Austrian Prison Service does not have access to corresponding data of former inmates.

If yes, at what point after release (six weeks, six months, one year, etc) is this recorded?

If yes, what is the current rate of employment for prison leavers in the jurisdiction?

If yes, can this data be broken down further by offence type? Do prison leavers with particular offence types have worse employment outcomes (e.g. people convicted of sexual offences)?

If willing, please write “yes” if we can contact you to reach out to for further information.

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Is improving prison leavers’ employment rates a priority for your jurisdiction?

Employment is, amongst other achievements, at the core of the spanish approach for reintegration. At this point, several programmes and interventions are being delivered, in cooperation with NGOs. This is specifically common in open-regime prisons, where prisoners are in permanent contact with society and community.

Does your jurisdiction record the rate of employment for prison leavers on release?

Once the person leaves prison and is released, the Administration does not record the personal pathway concerning employment or unemployment.

If yes, at what point after release (six weeks, six months, one year, etc) is this recorded?

If yes, what is the current rate of employment for prison leavers in the jurisdiction?

We are reaching very good rates of employment, mainly in open-regime prisons, where the "working reintegration" is paramount. Going to local contexts, and having in mind specific interventions to get a job (EPYCO programme), more than 50% of inmates in open-regime are being integrated through working contracts into society.

If yes, can this data be broken down further by offence type? Do prison leavers with particular offence types have worse employment outcomes (e.g. people convicted of sexual offences)?

Not really. Social and working integration, when achieved, does not really depend on the criminal type, except when the person has an expulsion order/edict, for example. Concerning very specific offence types (sexual offenders or even drug-dependants), we should have in mind social stigma. But this is something about how society understands integration.

If willing, please write “yes” if we can contact you to reach out to for further information.

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Is improving prison leavers’ employment rates a priority for your jurisdiction?

The Corps of Prison and Court Guard does not have such data as we are not authorized by law to collect such data. The Corps in the Slovak Republic ensures only penitentiary treatment.

Does your jurisdiction record the rate of employment for prison leavers on release?

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If yes, at what point after release (six weeks, six months, one year, etc) is this recorded?

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If yes, what is the current rate of employment for prison leavers in the jurisdiction?

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If yes, can this data be broken down further by offence type? Do prison leavers with particular offence types have worse employment outcomes (e.g. people convicted of sexual offences)?

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If willing, please write “yes” if we can contact you to reach out to for further information.

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Is improving prison leavers’ employment rates a priority for your jurisdiction?

Indeed, not all prison leavers are subject to an arrest warrant and thus are not systematically monitored by a House of Justice. Moreover, even for warrants, the appeal situation is not systematically coded (it is not always known) or updated. On the other hand, you will find attached information on the activity of the Electronic Surveillance Directorate: this is a presentation in French and English of the observations regarding the 2022 utilisation rate of litigants under SETAP that we can derive from the reporting regarding the types of hours granted. The data from the report do not allow us to precisely answer the question on the employment rate of litigants under SE, but do allow us to observe the distribution of litigants' time allocation. The figures provided refer only to the year 2022. However, we have the data for the years 2021 and 2022 and, based on the comparison of these two years, we can observe a positive evolution in the proportion of exit schedules granted in the context of a job or training between 2021 and 2022.

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Is improving prison leavers’ employment rates a priority for your jurisdiction?

Employment rates for prison leaver's are important because they reflect the ability of ex-prisoners to integrate into the labor market. The priority of the Latvian Prison Administration is to reduce recidivism, i.e. to apply resocialization measures appropriate to the risks and needs of sentenced persons during their sentence - social behavior correction (special programmes) and social rehabilitation (educational measures, involvement in useful employment, psychological assistance, social problem solving, leisure time measures, addiction reduction programme), with the aim of reducing the risk of re-offending. At the same time, it should be noted that the involvement of prison leaver's in employment is one of the indicators that could reduce recidivism, however, the Administration has no information on the number of ex-prisoners who establish employment relationships after release. Such information could be available to the State Employment Agency if the ex-prisoner has used its support in finding a job, and to the State Probation Service which supervises ex-convicts if the convict is released from serving the basic sentence (deprivation of liberty) on parole early (with or without electronic monitoring) or if the released person is placed under probation supervision as an additional sanction. Information on the employment of released persons is available to the State Revenue Service (from the moment the ex-prisoner starts legal work and is registered as an employee) and the State Social Insurance Agency (social contributions are paid). According to Article 2(2) of the Law "On Processing of Data of Natural Persons in Criminal and Administrative Offence Proceedings", the Administration is the competent authority that processes personal data for the purpose of applying and executing a criminal sentence - deprivation of liberty, after the execution of this sentence the Administration is not entitled to process data of natural persons.

Does your jurisdiction record the rate of employment for prison leavers on release?

According to the Prison Administration Act, prisons shall provide for the resocialization and mental care of sentenced persons, as well as health care. Consequently, the Administration only collects information on the employment of prisoners while serving a custodial sentence, when the prisoner is in a custodial institution. The Administration does not record information on the level of employment of persons after their release from prison. It should be additionally noted that after release from imprisonment a person may register with the State Employment Agency (hereinafter - SEA), since according to Paragraph 4 of the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No 876 of 18 December 2012 "Regulations of the State Employment Agency", one of the tasks of the SEA is to register and list the unemployed and jobseekers. The SEA implements the state policy in the field of unemployment reduction and support of the unemployed, jobseekers and persons at risk of unemployment.

If yes, at what point after release (six weeks, six months, one year, etc) is this recorded?

The ESF project "Integration of Former Prisoners into Society and the Labour Market" sets the result indicator as "Number of former prisoners who, after release from imprisonment and receiving support, have started looking for work is 1 000" As of 31.12.2021 we have data on project participants at any point since the start of the project in 2017, who have been released and registered with the State Employment Agency as unemployed or jobseekers at any point since 2017. There are 659 of them. In addition, we have data for the second quarter of 2022 on project participants at any point in time since 2017 who have been released and not registered with the State Employment Agency as unemployed or jobseekers, but for whom employers' taxes have been paid at any point in time since 2017 according to the SEA. There are 596 former inmates.

If yes, what is the current rate of employment for prison leavers in the jurisdiction?

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If yes, can this data be broken down further by offence type? Do prison leavers with particular offence types have worse employment outcomes (e.g. people convicted of sexual offences)?

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Is improving prison leavers’ employment rates a priority for your jurisdiction?

Yes. A lot is done during the prison stay to enhance the possibilities of getting a job after the release.

Does your jurisdiction record the rate of employment for prison leavers on release?

No not the Correctional service, as this is a matter for the Employment agency after release.

If yes, at what point after release (six weeks, six months, one year, etc) is this recorded?

If yes, what is the current rate of employment for prison leavers in the jurisdiction?

If yes, can this data be broken down further by offence type? Do prison leavers with particular offence types have worse employment outcomes (e.g. people convicted of sexual offences)?

If willing, please write “yes” if we can contact you to reach out to for further information.

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