Perspective ale educării în penitenciarele interbelice din Transilvania
Educational Perspectives in Transylvanian Interwar Prisons

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the disciplinary process in interwar prisons, presenting both the international and Romanian cases, more specifically, the Transylvanian space. The prisoners of Transylvania were subjected to an ample process of education that was often criticized. First, we contextualize the idea of prison and the historical and legislative evolution of the penitentiary system. Secondly, despite the Great Union of 1918, prison conditions and other sectors of social life changed at a different pace from what someone might expect. This stagnation was present in the justice sector, so the disciplining process and the prison life presented significant differences from one province to another. Under these circumstances, our attention is drawn to the implementation of the disciplining process and to the evolution of the punishing methods and their effects on the prisoners. In addition to that, we are interested in the actual prison life and in establishing if a human and behavioral metamorphosis could be truly acquired.

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