Resocialization and Freedom

reflections on Prison

Abstract

This article seeks to reflect on the concepts of resocialization, reintegration and freedom through an interesting empirical experience, implementing this proposal with refined reflection in the interface with reality. Through an integrative methodology between empiricism and theoretical reflection, based on the assumptions of the philosophy of praxis, the text defends the role of social workers within prison walls as bastions of human rights, basing their professional action on a thelos of freedom, and that in the meantime, actions should guide reintegration, being the opposite of those of custody applicable to prison police officers. In this way, the reflection presented to the public contributes considerably to a greater awareness of social workers about the prison system and its existential logic, enabling those who work in prison to infer practices beyond the harshness of the reality within prison walls and to position themselves as an important instrument in the search for human dignity, even in an environment of penal retribution.