Alfabetización digital en la prisión: una experiencia con jóvenes internos

A digital literacy and cultural workshop which encourages twenty young inmates to create and publish blogs is being carried out in the Juvenile Detention Facility of Barcelona since July 2006. It's a collaboration between the prison library and Omnia point, and the University of Barcelona Faculty of Library and Information Science. The aims of this activity were to promote inmates' education and raise their information threshold, to encourage them to read and write more, to expand their contact with the outer environment, to arouse or to strengthen their informational abilities and to develop their digital literacy. A critical assessment is made about Internet access as a necessary right that can favor inmates' reintegration, and about prison libraries, understood as tools that can have influence on the future inmates' reintegration into society and the labour market.