In a Greek Detention Center, an Official Uses TV to Teach Prisoners February 28, 2021 Prisoners sitting in a room while they watch a recorded music lesson in Avlona prison, north of Athens, Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:00 0:00 Pop-out player The director of a detention center in Greece is using television to teach the young men there who have no other way to get an education. Petros Damianos is the director of the school at Greece’s Avlona Special Youth Detention Center. He started the school in 2000. The men held at the detention center are between the ages of 18 to 25. Attendance at the voluntary school became popular. By September 2020, 96 percent of the prisoners had signed up.