Prisoners in Brazil may be able to shorten their stay in jail by reading and writing. It’s only 48 days but it can make a difference, the prisoners need to read from a collection of philosophy, science, literature, or the classics then reflect on them in a submitted paper.
Educational programs like this are a good way to help people returning to society restart with more focus and support.
Prisoners will have up to four weeks to read each book and write an essay which must “make correct use of paragraphs, be free of corrections, use margins and legible joined-up said the notice published on Monday in the official gazette.
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“A person can leave prison more enlightened and with a enlarged vision of the world,” said Sao Paulo lawyer Andre Kehdi, who heads a book donation project for prisons.
“Without doubt they will leave a better person,” he . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: Reading for Faster Freedom in Brazil
