The aim:
1. Upon completion of this course, the student will have reliably demonstrated the ability to understand the readaptation processes of ex-convicts, including: the latest information on rehabilitation, challenges encountered by convicted offenders after release, reintegration processes depending on different categories of inmates (e.g. women, sexual offenders, young offenders, and recidivists), activities supporting the functioning of former convicts in the social space.
2. Student will also gather general knowledge about social rehabilitation in a penitentiary institution (including the terminology in the field of social readaptation of convicts, needs connected with mental health, and suicide prevention ).
3. 3. Student will develop written skills and techniques for framing legal issues, presenting a compelling account of relevant facts, and constructing answers that identify legal problems in a concise written summary.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Student knows and describes the characteristics of individual types of rehabilitation processes depending on different categories of inmates.
2. Student gathers knowledge about social rehabilitation in a penitentiary institution. Knows and correctly uses terminology in the field of social readaptation of convicts.
3. Students know the application of Executive Penal Law.

Acquired skills:
1. Students are able to describe and identify needs connected with mental health and suicide prevention in prisons.
2. Student uses terminology connected with readaptation processes and penitentiary law.
3. Student classifies various types of activities supporting the functioning of former convicts in the social space.

Acquired social skills:
1. Student identifies issues facing prisons, including safety and security, overcrowding, and drug misuse.
2. Student examines rehabilitation as a key to reducing reconviction rates and crime by changing the individual and/or providing skills ready for release.
3. Student can discuss the extent to which rehabilitation is a key to reducing reoffending.

Course contents: 
1. Introduction to readaptation of convicts. What is Social Reintegration?
2. The Victims and Post-release Assistance Fund.
3. Social Rehabilitation Programmes for Offenders.
4.The Social Reintegration of ex-convicts and Crime Prevention. Challenges Confronting Offenders at the Time of their Release.
5. Goals and Attributes of Offender Reentry Programs.
6. Reentry of prisoners with Serious Mental Health Disorders.
7. Differences between Norway and the Polish system of reintegration.
8. Reintegration into Society through Education and Learning.
9. Employment of Prisoners – the First Step to Rehabilitation.
10. The Individualization of Deprivation of Liberty.
11. The prevention of recidivism.
12. The link between social reintegration and public safety.
13. Motherhood in prison (readaptation of incarcerated mothers).
14. Treatment of addicts in penitentiary units.
15. Readaptation of sex offenders.

Recommended reading: 
1. Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives, Maruna S. , Amer Psychological Assn. New York 2001.
2. A Convict’s Perspective: Critiquing Penology and Inmate Rehabilitation, Lamont Baker T. , CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 2014.
3. Prawo karne wykonawcze , Hołda Z., Hołda J., Migdał J., Żórawska B., Wolters Kluwer . Warszawa 2021.

Additional reading: 
1. Prison Education and Desistance: Changing Perspectives, Cleere G. , International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation. 2022.