Although the legislator in the applicable legal regulations did not call the pastoral activity “penitentiary activity” and did not include this activity in the catalogue of means of penitentiary influence, practical experience shows that the tasks of the prison chaplain and other people involved in the work of penitentiary priesthood are analogous to penitentiary work, having a specific social rehabilitation dimension. They are also an important element of postpenitentiary interactions aimed at social reintegration of prisoners. Significant words fell from the then director of the Central Board of Criminal Offices, Paweł Moczydłowski, during the ceremony of dedicating the prison chapel in Chełm in June 1990: “Here the Church today is permanently entering the prison system. We cannot imagine a new prison without the presence of the Church and its moral teachings. Repression is to replace – justice, hatred – humanism and a good word, including evangelical” (Harasiuk 1990: 5).
Education in prison conditions is mostly focused on resocialization. In Poland, imprisonment also aims to educate and motivate people to lead a generally acceptable lifestyle. To achieve this, penitentiary institutions use appropriate educational measures by means of which changes in the personality of the convict are created. One of such methods is the introduction of education. In order to facilitate the selection of the educational content for the school’s didactic and educational tasks, it is necessary to make the inclusion of learning objectives more concrete and operational. By definition, prison schools help convicts in intellectual transformation as well as arousing interests. They are also helpful in building positive personal qualities, deepening competences in the field of ability to behave in difficult situations, etc. Education allows the convict to obtain professional and life maturity, and also teaches competition and teamwork. teamwork. Apart from scientific requirements about choosing appropriate educational content there are also some program concepts such as pedagogical theories about selecting the content of education.
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