Educational Opportunities for Juvenile Prisoners

Abstract

The aim of the research was to find out the opportunities of education to imprisoned juvenile delinquents at Malakand division. The main objectives of the study were (i) To find out the educational opportunities and facilities to juvenile delinquents in jail. (ii) To explore the perception of jail superintendents about improvement of educational opportunities and facilities provided to juvenile delinquents in jail. The research was delimited to the two prisons of Malakand division. The researcher sought permission from the Inspector General of prison police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The imprisoned juvenile was taken as population. 20 juveniles were taken as a sample including 5 juveniles from the Sub jail Malakand and 15 from the District jail Swat. The semi structured interview was designed to collect qualitative data from respondents. The data were analyzed through thematic analysis which includes open codes, categories and themes. The results were that there was no proper school in both the jails of Swat and Malakand for juveniles and no proper resources were available. There was only one teacher in district jail swat who taught English, Urdu and Mathematics to the juveniles in school. There was no vocational training in jails. It is recommended that The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa may establish a comprehensive school in every jail for juveniles.