‘Here People Sign Anything’: The Importance of the Legal Literacy Workshop in a Prison in the Province of Buenos Aires describes and analyzes a legal literacy experience carried out by alphabetizers prisoners who selected judicial writings as useful knowledge in the prison context. Through an ethnographic approach, I intend to show what were the urgencies to propose this content, how it was presented and what was its reception by the students. Reflective social relationships and formative experiences were promoted in the workshop that, even without succeeding in subverting the power asymmetries that characterize the Penal System, allowed them to resist their violence.
Keywords:
correctional education; criminal law; learnings; justice; ethnography