Sentence remission in the Federal District

The central argument is reading training in prison as a path and perspective for the re-socialisation of incarcerated individuals, through access to general reading, literary reading and text practices, given that sentence remission through reading needs to be understood and ensured as a socio-educational public policy in Brazilian prisons. In this sense, the importance of its implementation and execution is a legitimised duty that falls to the states and their rulers. Furthermore, to think of a fairer, less violent and less criminal country is to know that education must be prioritised and used as a powerful instrument of general knowledge. In this sense, access to reading for imprisoned minorities should be valued, especially its impact on their relationship with literature and their reflections, even if they are generic. In this vein, the book questions how reading can transform the life of an incarcerated individual if, in Brazil, where more and more people are imprisoned, prisons are overcrowded and resocialisation is practically non-existent. It also points out whether there are legal guarantees and prospects for such resocialisation, which the book presents as possible, provided it is properly re-evaluated.