Convicts pass school exams

Convicts pass school exams

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Twenty-nine inmates of the
Mataram Correctional Institution recently passed their
examinations to obtain the equivalent of a primary school
diploma.

"These convicts were illiterate when they came here," I Wayan
Puspa of the local justice office was quoted by the Antara news
agency as saying.

The local education office has been working with the
correctional institution to provide inmates with a crash course
program, called the "A Packet", to study for the exams.

The institution has passed a total of 369 convicts since the
course was introduced in 1989. Many of them who have since been
released are earning their living by trading, making handicraft
products or raising hens, Puspa said. (emb)