Educação prisional no Brasil: a educação como direito e instrumento de ressocialização dos detentos

Abstract

The present work aims to identify the main challenges for the implementation of a school education plan in the prison reality. Addressing the current educational offer in prison institutions and the public actions developed there from the perspective that it is necessary to break the invisibility of the issue of prison education. Noting also that education in prisons fulfills two main roles in particular: education itself and resocialization. Having as a justification the social exclusion in the country we live in, and it is ignored that the prison population in Brazil is formed mainly by young, poor, black and brown people, with low education, unemployed or in the informal market who live on the margins of society.