Program of actions to improve the differentiated educational treatment with the young penal population

• Main Author: Lidia Carvajal Lazo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro de Información y Gestión Tecnológica 2019-07-01
• Series: Avances
• Online Access: http://www.ciget.pinar.cu/ojs/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/458

A program of actions was designed for the differentiated educational treatment of the young penal population with the definition of its components. To achieve this at first, the scientific problem was established based on the characterization of the current situation of differentiated educational treatment for the young prison population in the penitentiary, using a set of secondary and primary sources of information from the needs defined. This allowed us to identify the particularities that the program should include in its conception, taking advantage of the strengths and opportunities that exist and contributing to correct those issues identified as weaknesses or threats to the differentiated educational treatment process. For the elaboration of the program the method of modeling was used. The systemic approach was also used in order to base the program by addressing this process from the conception of this as a unit, as integration of elements and not as a simple sum of its parts, where each of them has an impact, an impact on the rest. With the modeled program the differentiated treatment to the category of inmates we studied was achieved, with a conception of group work, reorienting and forming the damaged values ​​eliminating the criminal and antisocial behavior to develop new aspirations in spite of the high sanctions. The adequacy of the actions proposed in the program, the age and the specific conditions of the units allow them to be used with other categories of inmates, in addition to generalizing the experience to all the youth establishments in the country.