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initiations to outside groups for cultural events

English translation: initiating contact with / contacting (outside groups)

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17:13 Jul 7, 2011

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Social Sciences - Law (general)

English term or phrase: initiations to outside groups for cultural events

Hello everyone,

Traditional prison life consists of endless days with known and unchanging routines. Heavily ordered life takes away the possibility of exercising personal and group responsibly. Efforts should, therefore, be made at both individual and group level to give prisoners responsibility for the structuring of as many areas of prison life as possible. Opportunities for prisoner groups to share responsibility with members of the staff can be utilised over matters as such matters as food menu arrangements, the organisation of physical activities, ****initiations to outside groups for cultural events**** or entertainment, etc. The aim should be to share as much responsibility with prisoners as possible using staff-inmate discussion and clear agreements that spell out the consequences of compliance- and non-compliance – with what is agreed.

I have to admit I can't understand the meaning of "initiations..." in this text.
My contextual guess is that "initiations to..." means something like invitations to organize something together, but I'm not very sure.

Thank you.

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English translation:initiating contact with / contacting (outside groups)

Explanation:
It looks like they discuss who and how the prisoner body communicates with various outside groups regarding activities. It may involve invitations, but I think the passage is referring to the initial contact. If an outside group is contacted all of a sudden by a prisoner or representative of the prisoner body it might be alarming. However some groups would prefer contact from them as opposed to the prison authorities - e.g. counselling and support groups for instance.