LIFE LONG LEARNING IN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

In most prison systems, prison punishement is considered as part of rehabilitation ideal, after which people will come back to community completely changed. This change, even if it is practised, is not easy at all, specially in condition of punishement servitude. Main purpose of prison punishement is social rehabilitation of convicts, which is carried out through educational treatmant. In order to make social rehabilitation and resocialization as succesfull as possible, it is necesery to create and addapt treatmant to each convict personaly. This is the reason why we, in prison in Banjaluka, from 2007. to 2010. intorduced many inovative approaches. Some of these inovations were: foreign language courses, computer usage education (were educators were also prisoners), magazine that is written and published by convicts, many exhibition of different work done by convicts, taking part in competitions outside the prison, and many other forms of education that also changed attitude of convicts towards punishment. This approach to social rehabilitation work became recognized, not only in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also in whole region. It is based on principals of humanization, individualization, democracy and resocialization. Main goal of this paper is to present how educational aspect can be important in correctional treatment, and how much concept of life long learning can contribute to succefull rehabilitation of convicts.