“educating art, a program that promotes art and culture as tools for reintegration”.

Gendarmeria de chile is an institution that "has the purpose of attending, monitoring and contributing to the social reintegration of people who, by resolution of competent authorities, are detained or deprived of liberty and to fulfill the other functions indicated by law" (article 1 of the organic law of gendarmerie of chile). in this sense, actions are defined to reduce recidivism and promote the social integration of people who violate criminal law. these actions are framed within the reintegration model that the open, closed and post-prison system has developed to reduce the risk of the adult offender population. in general, this model considers the provision of benefits aimed at solving the needs that may interfere with serving the sentence, whether in terms of physical and mental health, access to education, training and work; sports, recreational, artistic and cultural activities; and family ties, among others. from this perspective, it is relevant to strengthen specially the cultural axis, since it constitutes a tool that invites reflection, experience and common re-reflection, being able to offer transformative spaces of freedom, which in turn involve the development of social competences to reduce the somehow the effect of imprisonment, in parallel in the replacement of criminogenic behavior, by the adoption of prosocial behaviors. thus, artistic education within prisons is a contribution to the social reintegration model used by the gendarmeria, since it directly contributes to modifying the actions that involve the use of free time, even more so when this area constitutes a risk factor. culture is considered an integration mechanism that favors communication with the external world. thus, giving the possibility that those who are serving a sentence through artistic expressions make a cognitive change in relation to criminal activity, which is in accordance with the interventional line of the rnr model applied in the population of the closed, open and post-prison environment. this is reflected in the development of the "educator art program" that makes artistic monitors available for a variable number of hours per week, for the execution of workshops in disciplines of choice that fall within the following categories: visual arts (drawing , painting, sculpture and photography, among others), literature (writing and poetry), performing arts (dance, theater, circus, pantomime and radio theater), cinema (audiovisual production, appreciation and cinema forum) and music (musical interpretation, conformation of orchestras, singing, etc.) in 2018, the workshops provided by the former dibam (today, the national service of cultural heritage under the mincap), through the "reading promotion program" were added to the offer in the cultural field. these libraries are collaborative work spaces that favor interaction between people and access to culture, activities such as artistic exhibitions, reading sessions, film projections, among others, can be developed in these spaces, which it is suggested to use frequently.