Progresar hacia el régimen abierto : la visión de los profesionales

This paper explores the issue of prisoners that served the full sentence, without benefited of a gradual transition to the community,through the mechanisms of open regime and parole. The paper aims to understand the reasons for not being early release and to detect the best practices to challenge this problem. The method of the research has consisted in interviewing professionals related with different areas of the prison life: rehabilitation officers, professionals that design and implement re-entry policies, members of community organizations that collaborate in theresettlement process and members of the law institutions that takecontrol of the penitentiary administration. The results show levels of the prison life -system, profession, prisoner and community-that may explain the progression of inmates while servingthe sentence and make a critical reflection about the perspectives of change considering the professional views