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The Prison Project
 Tostan adapted the Community Empowerment Program (CEP) for its Prison Project for Senegalese citizens who have been incarcerated. This project provides prisoners with a new sense of dignity and the skills they need to successfully reintegrate into their families and society upon release.
Participants in the Prison Project receive training in income-generating activities such as: sewing, knitting, fabric dyeing, and craft making; and microcredit loans for the establishment of small businesses, preparing participants for a more productive life.
Senegal's state penitentiaries are characterized by a lack of water, toilets, adequate living space, and medical services. Most prisons lack organized rehabilitation activities for prisoners, who then often become repeat offenders.
An international agreement addressing prison conditions in Africa (Article 319 of the 1990 Kampala Declaration) allows for partnerships between organizations and prisons to provide rehabilitation services for the successful reintegration of prisoners into society.
Since 1999, Tostan has implemented its CEP in the Thiès Correctional Facility. The results have been so positive that the Director of the Senegalese State Penitentiary System requested the extension of the program throughout the prisons of Senegal.
Like the curriculum of the CEP, the Prison Project includes:
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