Educational Activities of Adults and Youth in Prisons: what teachers think of the prison system of the state of Ceará?

Abstract

This paper reports the main educational activities of young people and adults which have been developed aimed at professionals in the prisons of Ceará state. Currently in Brazil are developed merely two actions of teacher Prison System, the level of expertise, one of which is running in Ceará state. In addition to this action, fit note, in Ceará, actions for the training of 220 prison officers, the secondary data analysis of PNAD/2007 – Supplement EJA; funding of research projects by CNPq, the training of new researchers in themaster's level; the formation of new researchers in the master's level, the articulation of the UFC with the Ministry of Education, with Penitentiary School of Management and Resocialization and the Department of Justice and Citizenship.