Social Rehabilitation of Prisoners on the Basis of the Programme “Theatre, Mummy, Daddy and Me” in the Light of Document Analysis

Abstract

The article is based on a method of analyzing documentation on a prisoner social rehabilitation programme, which is focused on repairing broken bonds and consolidating relationships between parents and children. The programme’s objectives are discussed here, along with its methodology and evaluation process.The research material comprises various documents developed as part of the planning, implementation and evaluation of the programme, including workshop plans and evaluation and observation sheets generated in 2016–2018. The innovative prisoner social rehabilitation programme is discussed in detail in this article on the basis of the building and consolidation of parental bonds. Most social rehabilitation programmes of this type are informed by the social rehabilitation methods listed in Art. 67 § 3 of the Penal Code (1997), in which maintaining contact with family and the outside world is listed next to learning, work, cultural and educational activities, sport and therapy. The “Theatre, Mummy, Daddy and Me” programme is based on contemporary cognitive and behavioural approaches in psychology and therapy, and addition also draws on a multi-systemic approach to environmental therapy.In the context of the need to secure children’s rights and protect prisoners’ rights, it is the obligation of penitentiary institutions to secure contact between the incarcerated parents and their children.

Keywords

• social rehabilitation of prisoners
• the child’s right to parental contact
• convention on the rights of the child
• children of incarcerated parents