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Symposium: Accessibility in prison - a blank spot

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How do people with disabilities who are deprived of their liberty fare? Are detention rooms barrier-free? How can participation and resocialization succeed? The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Disability Equality Act (BGG) provide clear guidelines on this. And implementation? "These are topics that both law and curative education, which as a holistic pedagogy deals with all disability-related facets, have not dealt with or have dealt with insufficiently," says Prof. Dr. Christine Graebsch. The lawyer teaches at the Faculty of Applied Social Studies at the Fachhochschule Dortmund and heads the Prison Archive - an institution that aims to shed light on the reality of prisons.

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That's why the Faculty of Applied Social Studies at Fachhochschule Dortmund and the Faculty of Social Affairs & Education at DIPLOMA University in Bad Sooden-Allendorf are hosting a symposium entitled "People with disabilities in prison" on January 16, 2025 at the Fachhochschule Dortmund's inner-city campus on Sonnenstraße. "We want to fill this rather blank spot in the social debate and in research with some color," says Professor Graebsch.

In addition to researchers and lawyers specializing in criminal and medical law, Fachhochschule Dortmund PhD student Friederike Asche will also be speaking. She has dealt with the architectural aspects of accessibility in prisons.

Participation is free of charge. The organizers ask for registration by e-mail to strafvollzugsarchivfh-dortmundde 

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The symposium "Accessibility in prisons - a white spot" is organized by the Faculty of Applied Social Studies of the Fachhochschule Dortmund and the Faculty of Social Affairs & Education of the DIPLOMA University of Applied Sciences in Bad Sooden-Allendorf.

Location

Senate Hall (Room F212)

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