Abstract

The activity of resocialization must lead a person to constant change in the sphere of consciousness and in the sphere of behavior, to the abandonment of destructive behaviors, to constructive participation in social life, to the elaboration of motivations for pro social activity. Being locked up in solitary confinement for many years, contact with a psychologist, the possibility of therapy, sporting activity, work and participation in cultural and educational events, often do not lead to the expected results in the penitential exercise. One could perhaps add an aspect based on religious sentiments and practices to the methods of re-educational activity and re-socialization. The corrective exercise and renewal of religious life can become a complex of the remedial means indicated to the man trapped in the criminal life and are serving their imprisonment.Penitential pastoral care helps to achieve a threefold reconciliation in prisoners: with God, with society and with oneself.Religion and its manifestations undoubtedly form a lasting and deeply penetrating phenomenon that accompanies man, and for this reason the thesis that religious manifestations can help in the resocialization of prisoners seems right to us.