Fidel Castro on the Cuban prison system:
"If a man is in prison for whatever cause, even for conspiring against the state, the Revolution has to try, in all opportunity, some possibility of integrating himself into society so that he can work and live a decent life."
"If a man is in prison for whatever cause, even for conspiring against the state, the Revolution has to try, in all opportunity, some possibility of integrating himself into society so that he can work and live a decent life."
the aim of the rehabilitation program "is to neutralize them (Campesinos) politically and convince these men that the Revolution is really working to ameliorate social conditions for all Cubans; to demonstrate that in opposing the revolution they erred out of ignorance"
Castro on the books on offer for prisoners:
"Of course, we give them books on Marxism, but also books by authors who are not Marxists and who write on different questions of political or human interest... A simple book of propaganda has no effect on anybody."
"Of course, we give them books on Marxism, but also books by authors who are not Marxists and who write on different questions of political or human interest... A simple book of propaganda has no effect on anybody."
Each cuban prison which houses political prisoners is led by a revolutionary instructor who lives and eats with these prisoners. They are "responsible for explaining to the prisoners the work of the Revolution and its philosophical foundations and historical causes."
A typical lesson plan which looks at the idea of exporting revolution (revolution cannot be exported, only ideas), what Cuba offers to other people (examples of how to work and help the people), where the revolution came from, and when it is necessary to make revolution
"The re-education program has transformed the Cuban prison system into an organ of the revolutionary process."
