Prisoners Forbidden to Continue Higher Education Studies

However, such a thing by the ombudsman is being viewed as a match between the law in question and the human right to education.

Current legislation in Kosovo cannot enable prisoners in corrective centres to continue studies in higher education.

Article 84 of the Law for Execution of Criminal Sanctions gives this competence to the director of the relevant centre, but without coverage of research spending. According to this article: “Across particular programs, the director of the correctional institution allows the person to be convicted of following primary, secondary, university education or any other education. The expenses of such schooling are covered by the condemned person”.

This has been confirmed for Radio Kosovo, as has the director of the Boarding Centre in Lipjan, Heset Locku. He has said that this year's academic follow-up has enabled only one student, who has served a second sentence and has enabled you to use the benefits of using weekends at home.

On the contrary, Locke has said that there is no legal basis for the possibility of higher schooling.

There are such requests but there must be met certain legal criteria for continuing access to higher education, but there is also a lack of administrative instruction that would regulate the possibility of university schooling. ”

But, Kosovo Parliamentary MP Duda Balje, during the meeting of the Commission for Human Rights, Gender Equality, for Unlettered Persons and Petitions, has stated that there are numerous demands of prisoners to continue studies, for which he has also requested legal interpretation by the ombudsman, Hilmi Jashar.

We've had a petition from a mother, for the education of prisoners in Kosovo, higher education, is about faculty, and it's about a serious number, whether they have legal grounds or how the situation stands. ”

Yasar has indicated that prisoners should not be taken any rights other than that of being in prison.

Therefore, any claim to limiting a different right would have to be a part of the act. But since as standard everywhere in the world is that the person is deprived of freedom of movement only until he enjoys all the other rights, then in this context the right of education that the system would have to enable these people, because ultimately the idea of the punishment system itself is that these people turn into society and are people who contribute and integrate into society. ”

Statistics of the Kosovo Correcting Service show that no prisoners are followed in higher schooling currently. This is because this service has no legal basis to allow them to do so.