Política de reinserción y funciones del trabajo en las prisiones. (El caso de Cataluña)

Abstract

The penitentiary policy in relation to the work struggles between two options. On the one hand, the work like part of an integral policy is conceived, combined with other re-educations measures. And, on the other hand, the work is conceived as a form of return of the social damages caused by the delinquent. The work has positive functions in the rehabilitation and social reintegration of the prisoners. The work has important functions for the learning in the structuring of the daily life in the jails, the arrangement of the time within them and in the construction of the subjectivity of the prisoners, since the work improves the self-esteem.