Special Questions of Inmates’ Reintegration: the Role of NGOs and Churches
Special Questions of Inmates’ Reintegration: the Role of NGOs and Churches

Summary/Abstract: In my article I deal with the question of NGOs’ and church’s role in prison. The question of non-state-controlled actors’ gaining ground primarily focused on market actors entering penitentiary systems but this part of inmates’ reintegration has not yet been properly described. While researching the professional literature related to this subject matter I went through several primary sources and original documents. I digested the topic from an international and European point of view as well. After researching the international and European documents I paid a great deal of attention to studying the sources of Hungarian prison reintegration and issues about the role of church. Church programs and opportunities in prison provide great help for inmates who are receptive to those. They contribute to the inmates’ coping with the environment of the penitentiary institution, pastoral activity can help prisoners to accommodate to prison life. This is a crucial question to deal with because social involvement in critical issues such as criminality, prisons, criminals is rather low. Deep prejudice and intolerance may increase after release, and it is difficult for society to accept those having done their time.

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