There are constantly reappearing questions about the point of institutional rehabilitation, during which, instead of changes in personality, there is a developing personality degradation of the nature and life of the isolated person.

Seeking ways that allow for an effective, broadly understood, rehabilitation became to us a stimulus to set about the realisation of the study presented in the subsequent parts of this article. A new, creative, social readaptation needs a departure from the routine and an open attitude towards unconventional methods of acting with people serving a prison sentence for criminal offences.