DETAINEES’ EMPLOYMENT – INDICATOR OF SOCIAL REINTEGRATION
DETAINEES’ EMPLOYMENT – INDICATOR OF SOCIAL REINTEGRATION

Summary/Abstract: This article shall provide an analysis of the detainees’ employment, as an indicator oftheir ability to reintegrate into society after release. One of the most acute problems of society isthe recidivism, its control and solutions to reduce the crime rate. Over time, work has beenconsidered one of the most concrete methods of re-education, both in prison and after release. Intoday’s society, work is recognized as human, social, psychological and economic value, beingestablished as a human right along with other fundamental rights. Thus, the purpose of executionof sentences with deprivation of liberty is to prevent the commission of new crimes and forminga correct attitude towards the rule of law, towards the rules of social coexistence and towardswork, in order to reintegrate detainees into society.Social policies, programs and projects have been developed in this area, but not beingintegrated, their effects were not visible or quantified. To this situation is added the pandemiccaused by SARS-CoV-2 virus, which places in the background the concern for the category ofdetainees who have been released and the risk of recidivism that it presents. In this context,against the background of lack of training and qualification, increasing poverty, decreasing thesupply of jobs, limiting movement and labor migration in developed areas, an increase in crimeand recidivism in the coming years is expected. At present, the educational and therapeuticprograms carried out in penitentiaries is no longer in line with social reality, so that criminalstrategies and legislation need to be redesigned and viable solutions found for socialreintegration of detainees and for preventing the risk of recidivism.

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