English Social Sciences Law (general)

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.