Maintaining family ties in the context of social readaptation from the perspective of long-term prisoners with children under 15

Abstract

The article presents the results of a research project addressed to long-term prisoners with children up to 15 years of age. The functioning of long-term prisoners in the conditions of prison isolation was analyzed from the perspective of relevant dimensions of the prison environment: functional, spatio-temporal and social, together with the ways to minimize negative aspects of imprisonment through one of the most important means of penitentiary influence – maintaining family ties. Attention was also drawn to a selection of legal aspects of penitentiary proceedings towards long-term prisoners. In the current penitentiary reality, the priority is to develop a model of penitentiary proceedings that will counteract the negative effects of long-term penitentiary isolation and support the process of social reintegration.