En las Prisiones Federales de Brazil se está dando una de las mejores reformas que he visto en el sistema penal de un país: por cada libro leído, se reduce tu condena 4 días. Viva la evolución…
Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil’s most notorious criminals will be able to read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum 48 days off their sentence each year, the government announced.
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 writing,” said the notice published on Monday in the official gazette.
A special panel will decide which inmates are eligible to participate in the program dubbed “Redemption through Reading”.
“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 said…
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