LES ACTIVITÉS À CARACTÈRE CULTUREL DANS LES ÉTABLISSEMENTS PÉNITENTIAIRES FRANÇAIS (DE LA LIBÉRATION AUX ANNÉES 1980). Tome 1 (original) (raw)

The first Culture/Justice protocol was co-signed on the 25 th of July 1986 by Jack Lang and Robert Badinter. Following the first international symposium about culture in prison (May-June 1985), this text formalised the interdepartmental cultural policy in prison which had been in place since the beginning of the 1980's. However, cultural activities have existed in French penal institutions since the Liberation. From choirs to theatre groups including concerts, these were often categorised as educational, socio-cultural, recreational and cultural activities. Initially organised by social assistants, they were then mostly led by prison educators. The latter had been created as part of the Amor reform in 1946. Only a few penal institutions were affected by these activites which were supposed to educate, observe and reform the prisoners. In the 1970's, because of the prison crisis, a new reform was implemented which turned the cultural activities into a means of rehabilitation and reintegration. In the early 1980's, this approach was transformed because of the intervention of Minister Lang. New initiatives appeared ; for example, audio-visual technology. From then on, these were led by artists, associations, and institutions from the world of creativity. The perspective of these new operators was then to guarantee the right to culture for the detained individuals. Prison educators then had to convert into coordinators. Consequently, activities depended on the local cultural fabric. Therefore, the penitentiary administration had to reorganise in order to take on board these new operations.

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