During 2025 and 2026, the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty will prepare a study on the social reintegration of persons deprived of liberty and released from prison in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its purpose is to make a diagnosis of the challenges in the adoption of policies aimed at the social reintegration of this population, and to deepen the development of state obligations in this area. In this way, the study it will provide tools to States for the adoption and implementation of effective social reintegration programs, focused on respect for human rights.

Within the framework of this initiative, the objective of this questionnaire is to collect information from States, civil society organizations, academia and specialists, so that it can be considered in the preparation of the study in question. The Commission invites and encourages you to answer the questions in this questionnaire, either in whole or in part, and, where appropriate, to attach copies of the respective normative frameworks, policies, and practices.  The deadline expires on October 29, 2025, and must be sent electronically to: [email protected]. The subject of the email must be: Questionnaire – Social Reintegration .

• Questionnaire