Education of vulnerable adult groups: The case of inmates in penal institutions

This paper deals with the education of prisoners in penal institutions. Prisoners are a vulnerable group with some special additional characteristics. While the existing legal framework provides for and strengthens training programs, unfortunately many similar efforts encounter serious difficulties. An adult educator has to overcome a series of obstacles and develop special techniques in order to be able to offer them the inalienable good of education, either in the form of basic knowledge or in the form of vocational training. The essential value of education in prison is emphasized as perhaps the basic resource that can disengage prisoners from the vicious cycle of incarceration and also offer an alternative to the problems that they experience every day.