Brazilian prisoners can leave prison more enlightened and with a broader view of the world.
Brazilian prisoners
Brazil is one of the countries with the highest number of prisoners in the world… The number of inmates in those prisons was 8,35,643 by December 2021 and it was stated that it is second only to the prisons of America and China… The authorities have further stated that the main reason is the widespread use of drugs and the increase in related crimes..
The Brazilian authorities have introduced a new way to reduce the overcrowding in the overcrowded federal prison system for the current prisoners here to shorten their sentences… For that, the authorities have taken steps to introduce a project to encourage these prisoners to read books. It has been decided that for every book a prisoner reads, four days will be deducted from their sentence.
The system is now being successfully trialed to shave off a maximum of 48 days each year for inmates at four federal prisons that hold Brazil’s most notorious criminals… where they can read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science, or the classics, authorities have announced. .
Here, these prisoners are given up to four weeks to read each book and write a review of the book they have read, where the inmate must use the passages of the review correctly and also the words written must be free of corrections and use marginal and clearly connected writing. It has also been mentioned that…
Redemption through Reading
a person can leave prison more enlightened and with a broader view of the world…
A special board decides which prisoners are eligible to participate in this program called “Redemption through Reading” and prisoners must undergo special training and experience to be eligible…
Sao Paulo lawyer Andre Kehdi, who heads a project to donate books to prisons, said the new concept means “a person can leave prison more enlightened and with a broader view of the world…
They add that this system is successful and from now on the prisoners will undoubtedly be released into Brazilian society as better people…
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