الملخص الإنجليزي
This study aimed at identifying the counseling needs of the prisoners at the Central Prison in Sameil. To achieve this aim, the study attemted to answer the following questions:
a-What are the counseling needs of the prisoners in the Central prison in Sameil?
b-What is the extent to which counseling needs subscales are more common in the prisoners?
C-Are there significant statistical differences in the prisoners' counseling needs due to the social, economic, educational status, and the type of crime?
d- Do demographic variables have significant effects to the counseling needs?
e- What are the means of satisfaction of counseling needs from the prisoners'
view of the central prison?
The sample of the study consisted of (69) prisoners, randomly selected from the population of the central jail/prison at Sameil. A scale of (95) items was designed for the study. According to the judgments as approved and judged by (17) specialists in legitimate and legal judgment, psychology, measurement and evaluation. The scale in -its final version- consisted of 72 items. Those items were relevant to the religious, vocational, social, psychological, and educational
status.
The reliability of the scale of (0.93) was estimated for the whole scale and for its subscales, through using Alpha Cronbach approach in a sample of (30) prisoners who were chosen outside the study sample. The Standard error of (0.14) was also estimated, based on SPSS for analyzing the data, the findings of the study were as follows:
a-The item expressing the counseling need "I need someone to teach me criminal laws to avoid being legally charged after leaving the prison" became in the first rank, then the item, " I need someone to train me on respecting the the lastva society's values and customs" became in the last rank.
b-the rank order of the counseling needs fields revealed that the religious needs came in the first rank, then professional needs became in the second rank, then the educational needs, the social needs and the psychological needs in the fifth rank.
c- No significant statistical differences (a≤0.05) existed in counseling needs due to educational, economic, social and marital status; while results revealed that there was a significant statistical difference in counseling needs due to the variable of type of the crime variable at a significance level (a≤0.05). Also the researcher used stepwise multiple progression analysis for the variables of the entire study. It was shown that the variables of the economical, and age level had an impact on the counseling needs.
d-The main proposals made by the prisoners to contribute to the meeting of the
central prisoners' needs are as follows:
• Holding religious lectures and seminars that match the prisoners' counseling needs.
Preparing the prisoners psychologically and socially before being putting in prison and after releasing.
Giving great consideration to the training of prisoners on different types of careers and supporting them with experience certificates, in order to find jobs when they are released from the prison.
• Giving financial support to the prisoners after releasing them from prison and encouraging them to have investment projects, in order to easily cope with the society, and to reduce the chances of repeating the crime.
