Šiame darbe analizuojamos nuteistųjų patirtys dalyvaujant socialiniuose tinkluose, kaip antrinėje narkomanijos prevencijoje. Tyrimu siekta aptarti nuteistųjų antrinės narkomanijos prevencijos sampratą; apibūdinti socialinio tinklo sampratą socialinio darbo kontekste ir socialinio tinklo intervencijos modelį socialinio darbo praktikoje, atskleidžiant socialinio darbuotojo vaidmenis mobilizuojant socialinius tinklus antrinėje narkomanijos prevencijoje laisvės atėmimo vietose; analizuoti nuteistųjų dalyvavimo pirminiame (šeimos, giminės, draugų) tinkle poveikį narkotikų vartojimui; atskleisti nuteistųjų dalyvavimo antriniame (reabilitacinės grupės) tinkle, kaip antrinėje narkomanijos prevencijoje, poveikį pirminio tinklo ryšiams ir nuteistųjų integracijai į visuomenę. Tyrimo objektas – nuteistųjų patirtys dalyvaujant socialiniuose tinkluose. Tyrimo tikslas - analizuoti, apibendrinti ir specifikuoti nuteistųjų patirtis dalyvaujant socialiniuose tinkluose, kaip antrinėje narkomanijos prevencijoje. Darbe atliktas kokybinis tyrimas. Tyrimo duomenys rinkti atliekant iš dalies struktūruotąjį interviu, duomenys analizuoti naudojant interpretuojamąją fenomenologiją. Tyrimo dalyviai atrinkti taikant netikimybinę, kriterinę atranką. Tyrime dalyvavo 10 respondentų, atitinkančių šiuos kriterijus: nuteistieji, atliekantys bausmę pataisos namuose; buvę narkotikų vartotojai ar priklausomi nuo narkotikų; dalyvaujantys antrinėje narkomanijos prevencijoje (reabilitacinėje grupėje) laisvės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The aim of this work is to analyse the experiences of imprisoned in social networks that are considered to play the secondary role in drug prevention.The work describes the term „secondary drug prevention“, explains both the conception of social network and the model of intervention. Here the functions of social workers as moderators who play an important role in mobilising social networks in the places of imprisonment are also revealed. Additionally, the other purpose of the work is to find out the impact of primary social network (i.e. family, relatives, friends) on drug abusing among imprisoned and contrary to show the impact of secondary network on primary network as well as on integration the imprisoned to the society. The object of research is the experiences of imprisoned in social networks. The goals of the research are to analyse, to specify and generalise those experiences. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews and analysed by the method of interpretative phenomenology. The ten respondents who were selected by criterion sampling have been involved in secondary drug prevention network. The results of the research are the following: a narrow circle of friends and relatives and often broken relationships due to imprisonment have a negative influence on those abusing drugs. As a rule family members feel the shame and do not support their relative. At this stage social workers are able to create and support secondary drug prevention network... [to full text]

Although Canada has observed a drastic decrease in the use of secure custody for justice-involved children since the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (2002), thousands of children are still imprisoned each year. Children in these carceral spaces tend to be the unwanted children of children's rights movements, and, as such, their rights-related experiences are often left unexamined (Abramson, 2006). To this end, by drawing on interview-based accounts and an examination of related policies and training curriculum, this thesis focuses on children's rights awareness, rights-informed practices and child-friendly justice in one provincial secure custody facility in Canada by centring the experiences of eight imprisoned children within a broader context provided by seven facility staff and two members of the provincial Office of the Child and Youth Advocate. Further, conceptualizing the secure custody facility as a porous institution (Ellis, 2021) illuminates the carceral space's dissonance between acknowledging the unique status of children (Hollingsworth, 2008) and working within a system designed for the adult prisoner. The findings indicate that imprisoned children are not made aware of the rights granted to them in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) upon admission to secure custody, nor do children's rights inform decision-making at this facility. However, promisingly, the findings do demonstrate the potential to move towards a child-friendly justice space predicated upon children's rights. Building upon this potentiality, this thesis contributes to the theoretical understanding of children's rights awareness in carceral spaces while also identifying a path toward the integration of children's rights aspects and practices.

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Šiame moksliniame darbe analizuojamos įkalintų asmenų vilties ir gyvenimo prasmės patirtys atradus Dievą. Darbu siekta atskleisti egzistencialistinės paradigmos taikymo galimybes socialiniame darbe su nuteistaisiais, atskirai aptariant Vilties ir Logoterapijos teorijų raišką; atskleisti atsivertimo ir tikėjimo prasmę laisvės atėmimo vietose esantiems asmenims bei parodyti tikėjimo į Dievą atradimo sąsajas su nuteistųjų vilties ir gyvenimo prasmės patirtimis; apibūdinti krikščioniškąjį Alfa kursą, kaip tikėjimu į Dievą grįstą socialinio darbo su įkalintais asmenimis modelį, ugdantį nuteistųjų motyvaciją reintegruotis į visuomenę, atskleidžiant nuteistųjų tarpusavio pasidalijimo asmenine gyvenimo ir tikėjimo patirtimi grupėje reikšmę vilties ir gyvenimo prasmės atradimui; atskleisti pažinties su kitų žmonių sėkmės istorijomis ir jų asmeninio tikėjimo bei gyvenimo liudijimo reikšmę įkalintų asmenų vilties ir gyvenimo prasmės patirčiai ir jų motyvacijai reintegruotis į visuomenę. Tyrimo objektas – įkalintų asmenų vilties ir gyvenimo prasmės patirtys atradus Dievą. Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti ir interpretuoti įkalintų asmenų vilties ir gyvenimo prasmės patirtis atradus Dievą. Darbe atliktas kokybinis tyrimas. Tyrimo duomenys rinkti taikant iš dalies struktūruotojo grupinės diskusijos interviu metodą, duomenys analizuoti naudojant interpretuojamąją fenomenologiją. Tyrimo dalyviai atrinkti taikant kriterinę atranką. Tyrime dalyvavo 7 įkalinti asmenys, atitinkantys šiuos kriterijus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In this scientific research paper there is the analysis of imprisoned people‘s experiences of hope and the meaning of life after the discovery of God. The objective of my paper is to reveal the application opportunities of existentialist paradigm in social work with the imprisoned; in addition to discussing the expression of the Theories of Hope and Logotherapy. Moreover, I aim to reveal the significance of conversion and faith to people who are in prison as well as to show the relations of discovered faith in God with imprisoned people‘s experiences of hope and the meaning of life. I also try to define the Alpha course as the model of social work with the imprisoned based on faith in God, which generates prisoners‘ motivation of reintegration into society by revealing the importance of sharing one‘s personal experience of life and faith in the group for the sake of the discovery of hope and the sense of life. Furthermore, I aim to reveal the significance of learning about other people‘s success stories and their witnesses about their personal faith and life for imprisoned people‘s experiences of hope and the meaning of life and their motivation for reintegration into society. The research object is imprisoned people‘s experiences of hope and the meaning of life after the discovery of God. The research aim is to reveal and interpret experiences of hope and the meaning of life after the discovery of God. The qualitative research has been done in the paper. The research data... [to full text]

Até o ano de 2001 mulheres do sistema prisional do estado de São Paulo não tinham o direito a receber seus parceiros para realizar a visita íntima, o que constituía uma das principais queixas e reinvidicação das presidiárias, já que para o homem preso isto sempre existiu. Em 27/12/2001 a resolução no. 96 da Secretaria das Administrações Prisionais regulamentou o exercício da visita íntima às mulheres presas assegurando este direito, prescrevendo igualdade de gênero já previstos na Constituição federal. No entanto, há baixa adesão por parte das mulheres em inscrever seus parceiros para a realização da visita íntima. O estudo teve como objetivo compreender os significados da visita íntima, na perspectiva da mulher presa, como também, caracterizar o perfil das mulheres da Penitenciária Feminina da Capital de São Paulo (PFC), do ponto de vista sóciodemográfico, prisional e familiar/conjugal. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa. Foram consultados 655 prontuários das mulheres da PFC, das quais são bastante jovens, da raça branca e de baixa escolaridade. Referem ser solteiras e não ter companheiro. A maioria das mulheres está envolvida nos delitos referentes a entorpecentes como também os do roubo e extorsão. Somente 2,6% (17) referiram, nos prontuários, ter o desejo em inscrever o parceiro para a visita íntima. Também foram realizados dois grupos focais, um com mulheres que optaram pela visita íntima e outro com as que não optaram. Não obstante relatos de constrangimento e humilhação, no contexto da visita íntima, os significados da mesma para a mulher da PFC são modelados pelo interesse na manutenção da conjugalidade, pela necessidade de satisfazer o parceiro ou como modo de afirmar a liberdade sexual através da recusa à visita íntima. / Until the 2001 women's of the system prisional of the state of São Paulo they were not entitled to receive their partners to accomplish the intimate visit what constituted one of the main complaints and the convicts' request, since for the arrested man this always existed. In 27/12/2001 the resolution number 96 of Prisional's Administration Department the exercise of the intimate visit to the women arrested assuring this right, prescribing gender equality already foreseen in the Federal Constitution. However, there is low adhesion on the part of the women in enrolling their partners for the intimate visit's accomplishment. The study looked for to know who they are the women of the Feminine Prison of the São Paulo City (PFC), of the socialdemographic point of view, prisional and family matrimonial, as well as to understand the intimate visit's meanings, in the woman's perspective arrested, so much of the ones that chose or not for the same. That was a quantitative and qualitative research, were consulted 655 records of the women's PFC, of which are plenty young, of the white race and of low education. They refer to be single and not to have partner. The majority of the women is involved in the crimes regarding narcotics as well as the one of the robbery and extortion. Only 2,6% referred, in the records to have the desire in enrolling the partner for the intimate visit. Also two focal groups were accomplished one with women that opted for the intimate visit and the other with the ones that didn't choose. The intimate visit's meanings for the woman of PFC are marked strongly by the gender relationships, where the conflict among the need of accomplishing the sexual encounter it is related to the maintenance of the matrimonial with the need of the man's satisfaction. Subjects as embarrassment and humiliation are present in the little adhesion to intimate visit's Program as well as the institutional rigidity.

Até o ano de 2001 mulheres do sistema prisional do estado de São Paulo não tinham o direito a receber seus parceiros para realizar a visita íntima, o que constituía uma das principais queixas e reinvidicação das presidiárias, já que para o homem preso isto sempre existiu. Em 27/12/2001 a resolução no. 96 da Secretaria das Administrações Prisionais regulamentou o exercício da visita íntima às mulheres presas assegurando este direito, prescrevendo igualdade de gênero já previstos na Constituição federal. No entanto, há baixa adesão por parte das mulheres em inscrever seus parceiros para a realização da visita íntima. O estudo teve como objetivo compreender os significados da visita íntima, na perspectiva da mulher presa, como também, caracterizar o perfil das mulheres da Penitenciária Feminina da Capital de São Paulo (PFC), do ponto de vista sóciodemográfico, prisional e familiar/conjugal. Tratou-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa. Foram consultados 655 prontuários das mulheres da PFC, das quais são bastante jovens, da raça branca e de baixa escolaridade. Referem ser solteiras e não ter companheiro. A maioria das mulheres está envolvida nos delitos referentes a entorpecentes como também os do roubo e extorsão. Somente 2,6% (17) referiram, nos prontuários, ter o desejo em inscrever o parceiro para a visita íntima. Também foram realizados dois grupos focais, um com mulheres que optaram pela visita íntima e outro com as que não optaram. Não obstante relatos de constrangimento e humilhação, no contexto da visita íntima, os significados da mesma para a mulher da PFC são modelados pelo interesse na manutenção da conjugalidade, pela necessidade de satisfazer o parceiro ou como modo de afirmar a liberdade sexual através da recusa à visita íntima. / Until the 2001 women's of the system prisional of the state of São Paulo they were not entitled to receive their partners to accomplish the intimate visit what constituted one of the main complaints and the convicts' request, since for the arrested man this always existed. In 27/12/2001 the resolution number 96 of Prisional's Administration Department the exercise of the intimate visit to the women arrested assuring this right, prescribing gender equality already foreseen in the Federal Constitution. However, there is low adhesion on the part of the women in enrolling their partners for the intimate visit's accomplishment. The study looked for to know who they are the women of the Feminine Prison of the São Paulo City (PFC), of the socialdemographic point of view, prisional and family matrimonial, as well as to understand the intimate visit's meanings, in the woman's perspective arrested, so much of the ones that chose or not for the same. That was a quantitative and qualitative research, were consulted 655 records of the women's PFC, of which are plenty young, of the white race and of low education. They refer to be single and not to have partner. The majority of the women is involved in the crimes regarding narcotics as well as the one of the robbery and extortion. Only 2,6% referred, in the records to have the desire in enrolling the partner for the intimate visit. Also two focal groups were accomplished one with women that opted for the intimate visit and the other with the ones that didn't choose. The intimate visit's meanings for the woman of PFC are marked strongly by the gender relationships, where the conflict among the need of accomplishing the sexual encounter it is related to the maintenance of the matrimonial with the need of the man's satisfaction. Subjects as embarrassment and humiliation are present in the little adhesion to intimate visit's Program as well as the institutional rigidity.

I denna studie undersöker vi hur personalen på en anstalt i Sverige bemöter barn som besöker ett fängelse. Mötet kan på många sätt vara känsligt och barn med frihetsberövade föräldrar behöver tas emot av personal som förstår dess livssituation. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer vill vi förstå hur barnperspektivet på anstalten yttrar sig, vilken kompetens som finns hos personalen samt om det finns något samarbete mellan olika myndigheter för att stödja barnet.  I resultatdelen framförs och diskuteras nio intervjuades åsikter i förhållande till tidigare begrepp och forskning. Sammanfattningsvis menar vi att alla intervjuade har ett barnperspektiv men att lagar och föreskrifter ibland hindrar personalen att möta barnet ur barnets perspektiv. De anställda på anstalten ska jobba för att den intagne inte ska återfalla i brott samt att upprätthålla säkerhet. Att vara barn till någon som sitter i fängelse är speciellt. När barnet kommer till anstalten måste höga säkerhetskrav balanseras med vad barnet uttrycker och behöver. Vidare ser vi att ett större samarbete mellan socialtjänsten, kriminalvården och andra myndigheter skulle kunna stödja barnet och hans/hennes familj under förälderns fängelsevistelse. / The aim of this essay is to study how the staff at a Swedish prison approaches children that visit the prison. The meeting can in many ways be sensitive and children with imprisoned parents need to be welcomed by employees that have an understanding of their situation. The method used is qualitative interviews. Through these interviews we explore the child perspective at the prison, the employee’s competence and if there is any cooperation between different authorities to support the child.  In total we have interviewed nine persons and their views and reflections are compared with established research. We conclude that all the interviewees apply a child perspective in their work. However sometimes laws and regulations in effect hamper the staff’s ability to meet the child from the child’s perspective. The prime objectives for the employees at a prison are to maintain security and to help the inmates towards a life outside the criminal sphere. To be a child and have a parent in prison is difficult. When the child visits the prison his/her needs and feelings has to be balanced with the security demands at the prison. We also argue that it would be helpful for the support of the child and his/her family if social services, The Prison and Probation Service and other authorities would have a closer cooperation.

This thesis is about the structure of the boundary of the universe, i.e., points where the geometric structures of spacetime cannot be continued. In partic­ular, we study the structure of the b-boundary by B. Schmidt. It has been known for some time that the b-boundary construction has several drawbacks, perhaps the most severe being that it is often not Hausdorff separated from interior points in spacetime. In other words, the topology makes it impossible to distinguish which points in spacetime are near the singularity and which points are ‘far’ from it. The non-Hausdorffness of the b-completion is closely related to the concept of fibre degeneracy of the fibre in the frame bundle over a b-boundary point, the fibre being smaller than the whole structure group in a specific sense. Fibre degeneracy is to be expected for many realistic spacetimes, as was proved by C. J. S. Clarke. His proofs contain some errors however, and the purpose of paper I is to reestablish the results of Clarke, under somewhat different conditions. It is found that under some conditions on the Riemann curvature tensor, the boundary fibre must be totally degenerate (i.e., a single point). The conditions are essentially that the components of the Riemann tensor and its first derivative, expressed in a parallel frame along a curve ending at the singularity, diverge sufficiently fast. We also demonstrate the applicability of the conditions by verifying them for a number of well known spacetimes. In paper II we take a different view of the b-boundary and the b-length func­tional, and study the Riemannian geometry of the frame bundle. We calculate the curvature Rof the frame bundle, which allows us to draw two conclusions. Firstly, if some component of the curvature of spacetime diverges along a horizontal curve ending at a singularity, R must tend to — oo. Secondly, if the frame bundle is extendible through a totally degenerate boundary fibre, the spacetime must be a conformally flat Einstein space asymptotically at the corresponding b-boundary point. We also obtain some basic results on the isometries and the geodesics of the frame bundle, in relation to the corresponding structures on spacetime. The first part of paper III is concerned with imprisoned curves. In Lorentzian geometry, the situation is qualitatively different from Riemannian geometry in that there may be incomplete endless curves totally or partially imprisoned in a compact subset of spacetime. It was shown by B. Schmidt that a totally imprisoned curve must have a null geodesic cluster curve. We generalise this result to partially im­prisoned incomplete endless curves. We also show that the conditions for the fibre degeneracy theorem in paper I does not apply to imprisoned curves. The second part of paper III is concerned with the properties of the b-length functional. The b-length concept is important in general relativity because the presence of endless curves with finite b-length is usually taken as the definition of a singular spacetime. It is also closely related to the b-boundary definition. We study the structure of b-neighbourhoods, i.e., the set of points reachable from a fixed point in spacetime on (horizontal) curves with b-length less than some fixed number e > 0. This can then be used to understand how the geometry of spacetime is encoded in the frame bundle geometry, and as a tool when studying the structure of the b-boundary. We also give a result linking the b-length of a general curve in the frame bundle with the b-length of the corresponding horizontal curve. / digitalisering@umu

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa realizada com sujeitos jovens e adultos privados de liberdade, reincidentes, com pelo menos metade da pena cumprida na Penitenciária de Benguela/Angola. Teve como foco a compreensão do sentido atribuído por esses sujeitos à experiência de ser preso reincidente, percebendo como experienciam o programa de reeducação do sistema prisional local. Os fundamentos teóricos da investigação basearam-se em autores que discutem a realidade da prisão; o direito à educação de pessoas em espaços de privação de liberdade; e a situação histórica de Angola, marcada pela longa guerra civil, após a Independência que a livrou do colonialismo do governo português, por tantos anos. Autores angolanos contribuíram para o desvelamento dessa condição histórica, e vários brasileiros foram fundamentais para compreender a temática relativa à prisão. O tema tornou-se relevante entre pesquisadores na academia brasileira, provocados em grande parte por acordos internacionais sobre direitos humanos e, especialmente, sobre o direito à educação de pessoas jovens e adultas em espaços de privação de liberdade. O balizamento brasileiro e internacional serviu para avaliar como o Estado angolano se porta diante desse direito, e de que forma atende (ou não) o preceituado nas prisões angolanas, sendo signatário de acordos internacionais. A investigação pode ser considerada um estudo de caso qualitativo, cuja recolha de informações utilizou observação, entrevistas e questionários que geraram dados quantitativos. Estes resultaram de questionários aplicados a dez reeducadores dos serviços prisionais e a 26 reclusos reincidentes, entre os quais 23 do sexo masculino e três do sexo feminino, todos não identificados. As entrevistas realizadas se fizeram desde o diretor da instituição penal ao responsável provincial da reeducação; ouviram o responsável pela área de segurança do presídio, um advogado de presos e a mãe de um dos reclusos reincidentes. Problemas de ordem política, econômica, social, assim como o fator guerra que acompanhou toda a história de Angola (1975-2002) contribuíram, em grande parte, para que os sujeitos especialmente jovens cometessem delitos e sofressem a privação da liberdade. No dizer dos sujeitos, a expectativa de mudança de vida se põe na volta à escola e no aprendizado de uma profissão no que depositam esperanças de que a cadeia possa contribuir, para que a sociedade os discrimine menos, porque egressos do sistema penitenciário de Angola. / This work results from research carried out with young and adult subjects deprived of their freedom and recidivists, having completed at least half of their sentence at the Benguela Penitentiary in Angola. It focuses on the understanding of meanings assigned by such subjects to their experience as recidivist prisoners, and its purpose is to capture their feelings about the local prison system re-education program. The theoretical foundations of the investigation was based on the ideas put forward by a selected number of authors involving the day-to-day reality of that prison, the right to education that should be granted to people in places where they are deprived of their freedom, and the historical background of Angola, a country marked by a long civil war following the independence which freed it from the many years of Portuguese colonialism. Some Angolan authors have contributed to unveiling this historical process, together with several Brazilian authors, who have made significant contributions to the understanding of the prison issue. The relevance of this theme for researchers in the Brazilian academic world was largely provoked by their sensibility to international agreements on human rights, particularly those related to the right to education of confined young and adult persons. This Brazilian and international support was an important factor in the assessment of the Angolan States behavior in relation to this right and to its positive (or negative) response to the principles upheld by the prisons in Angola, considering that Angola is a subscriber to international agreements. The investigation can be viewed as a qualitative case study which includes observation, interviews and questionnaires as well as data gathering strategies, in order to obtain quantitative data. The questionnaires were applied to 10 re-educators acting within the prison and 26 recidivist prisoners, 23 of which are male and 3 female, all of them anonymous. The interviews covered a large spectrum, from the director of the penal institution to the person responsible for education in the province. Others who were heard are the person responsible for the prison security area, a prisoners lawyer and the mother of one of the recidivist prisoners. Problems of a political, economic and social nature, as well as the war, which was present throughout the history of Angola (1975-2002), have been a strong motivation for the subjects, particularly the young ones, to indulge themselves in criminal actions, resulting in the deprivation of their freedom. As the subjects say, their hope for change is placed on their return to school as well as on vocational training. They also expect that the jail itself will help to reduce social discrimination against ex-prisoners

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa realizada com sujeitos jovens e adultos privados de liberdade, reincidentes, com pelo menos metade da pena cumprida na Penitenciária de Benguela/Angola. Teve como foco a compreensão do sentido atribuído por esses sujeitos à experiência de ser preso reincidente, percebendo como experienciam o programa de reeducação do sistema prisional local. Os fundamentos teóricos da investigação basearam-se em autores que discutem a realidade da prisão; o direito à educação de pessoas em espaços de privação de liberdade; e a situação histórica de Angola, marcada pela longa guerra civil, após a Independência que a livrou do colonialismo do governo português, por tantos anos. Autores angolanos contribuíram para o desvelamento dessa condição histórica, e vários brasileiros foram fundamentais para compreender a temática relativa à prisão. O tema tornou-se relevante entre pesquisadores na academia brasileira, provocados em grande parte por acordos internacionais sobre direitos humanos e, especialmente, sobre o direito à educação de pessoas jovens e adultas em espaços de privação de liberdade. O balizamento brasileiro e internacional serviu para avaliar como o Estado angolano se porta diante desse direito, e de que forma atende (ou não) o preceituado nas prisões angolanas, sendo signatário de acordos internacionais. A investigação pode ser considerada um estudo de caso qualitativo, cuja recolha de informações utilizou observação, entrevistas e questionários que geraram dados quantitativos. Estes resultaram de questionários aplicados a dez reeducadores dos serviços prisionais e a 26 reclusos reincidentes, entre os quais 23 do sexo masculino e três do sexo feminino, todos não identificados. As entrevistas realizadas se fizeram desde o diretor da instituição penal ao responsável provincial da reeducação; ouviram o responsável pela área de segurança do presídio, um advogado de presos e a mãe de um dos reclusos reincidentes. Problemas de ordem política, econômica, social, assim como o fator guerra que acompanhou toda a história de Angola (1975-2002) contribuíram, em grande parte, para que os sujeitos especialmente jovens cometessem delitos e sofressem a privação da liberdade. No dizer dos sujeitos, a expectativa de mudança de vida se põe na volta à escola e no aprendizado de uma profissão no que depositam esperanças de que a cadeia possa contribuir, para que a sociedade os discrimine menos, porque egressos do sistema penitenciário de Angola. / This work results from research carried out with young and adult subjects deprived of their freedom and recidivists, having completed at least half of their sentence at the Benguela Penitentiary in Angola. It focuses on the understanding of meanings assigned by such subjects to their experience as recidivist prisoners, and its purpose is to capture their feelings about the local prison system re-education program. The theoretical foundations of the investigation was based on the ideas put forward by a selected number of authors involving the day-to-day reality of that prison, the right to education that should be granted to people in places where they are deprived of their freedom, and the historical background of Angola, a country marked by a long civil war following the independence which freed it from the many years of Portuguese colonialism. Some Angolan authors have contributed to unveiling this historical process, together with several Brazilian authors, who have made significant contributions to the understanding of the prison issue. The relevance of this theme for researchers in the Brazilian academic world was largely provoked by their sensibility to international agreements on human rights, particularly those related to the right to education of confined young and adult persons. This Brazilian and international support was an important factor in the assessment of the Angolan States behavior in relation to this right and to its positive (or negative) response to the principles upheld by the prisons in Angola, considering that Angola is a subscriber to international agreements. The investigation can be viewed as a qualitative case study which includes observation, interviews and questionnaires as well as data gathering strategies, in order to obtain quantitative data. The questionnaires were applied to 10 re-educators acting within the prison and 26 recidivist prisoners, 23 of which are male and 3 female, all of them anonymous. The interviews covered a large spectrum, from the director of the penal institution to the person responsible for education in the province. Others who were heard are the person responsible for the prison security area, a prisoners lawyer and the mother of one of the recidivist prisoners. Problems of a political, economic and social nature, as well as the war, which was present throughout the history of Angola (1975-2002), have been a strong motivation for the subjects, particularly the young ones, to indulge themselves in criminal actions, resulting in the deprivation of their freedom. As the subjects say, their hope for change is placed on their return to school as well as on vocational training. They also expect that the jail itself will help to reduce social discrimination against ex-prisoners