ElPais: Spanish prisoners find solace on the Camino de Santiago

ivar

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• Apr 24, 2019

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Spanish prisoners find solace on the Camino de Santiago

Inmates from a penitentiary in Segovia are completing the last stage of their sentence on the famous pilgrimage as part of a program to help them integrate into society

elpais.com

 

Tincatinker

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• Apr 24, 2019

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Thanks for posting this Ivar. A reminder of the penitential history of pilgrimage; and that there is always a "Camino", a "Way", a "road" back into society for those who fell off the edge.

 

Bradypus

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• Apr 24, 2019

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El Pais were a little slow in bringing out the story - El Correo Gallego published a short piece about their arrival in Santiago at the beginning of the month
https://www.elcorreogallego.es/sant...JAtDtuOYyCgRCCNHFyH0ACWRcE6P7WdBdCH-e6I5U6_Z0

 

naplesdon

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• Apr 24, 2019

• #4

It is heart warming.

 

t2andreo

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• Apr 24, 2019

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Everyone deserves a second chance, at least once...

 

lt56ny

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• Apr 25, 2019

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Thanks Ivar for this great story. I hope one day someone writes about the inmates themselves and their experience on their camino.

 

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Pilger99

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• Apr 25, 2019

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I'm not sure if I met prisoners during the years, but I already came in contact with some younger people who were "stumbling" over common values like going to school, not stealing, avoiding drugs ... and these were sent to this walk instead of other kind of detention or social work. I haven't followed if it was just a experiment or is done on a regular base.

And you may rethink your idea of prisoners. Being in prison does not always mean, staying for months/years behind walls. Some prisoners do their daily work ouside in normal offices or factories and only come back to stay in prison at night.
Do you know?: It's an actual discussion to introduce free wifi/internet in prisons in Berlin (the discussion is mainly about costs and jealousy, because still not every citizen outside will be able to get it). The newly built detention centers already have it.

 

NorthernLight

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• Apr 27, 2019

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There are a couple of northern European countries with camino social programs for juvenile offenders. They have to meet certain criteria and they have a caretaker/guardian who walk with them ... not necessarily step in step. I've met a couple. I think it's done out-of-high-season.

 

Iriebabel

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• Apr 29, 2019

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NorthernLight said:

There are a couple of northern European countries with camino social programs for juvenile offenders. They have to meet certain criteria and they have a caretaker/guardian who walk with them ... not necessarily step in step. I've met a couple. I think it's done out-of-high-season.

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I met a care taker at my albergue last year in in Finesterra was in May