Education beyond the bars: reflections on school in Brazilian prisons
International Journal of Development Research
Education beyond the bars: reflections on school in Brazilian prisons
Received 22nd October, 2019; Received in revised form 14th November, 2019; Accepted 09th December, 2019; Published online 29th January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Ênio Silva da Costa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The discussion on education within the Brazilian Prison System is strongly connected with the social function of the school, once the criminal policy is directly related to the failure of the prison system, taking into account its primary objectives, viz. resocialize and insert its subjects into society, without the prospect of relapsing into the prison system. Many laws have emerged towards the possibility of emancipatory education and the redemption of sentences, but practically little has been done to alleviate the effects of imprisonment, recidivism and the social consequences, which end up in the retro-feeding effect of the penitentiary system.
