National Prison Politics
The national prison policy places prison officials as the spearhead of improving the nature of inmates. "Every employee should participate actively and passionately guiding the prisoners into a moral Indonesian man," Koesnoen notes.
Prison officials must strive to be role models for prisoners. Their examples stem from good daily actions in prison.
"Especially we have to avoid corrupt, bribery, bribery, and know-as-know acts, with extreme harmless consequences, not only state and service but also educated, and others," notes Labor's Voice Prison, June-August 1955.
The national prison policy also imposes tasks on prisoners. "Between prisoners and employees there must be cooperation in striving to achieve the prison political ideals," wrote Koesnoen.
Prisoners play the role of schoolchildren. They have a series of activities and education during the period of detention. Their teachers are prison officials. Relationships are equal, but different in task. No wonder if it appears that the prison has incarnated the country's educational home in the decade of the 1950s. But this assumption is then refuted by union officers' union representatives.
"The prison is not replaced by the RPN (State Education House), but the prison of training where it means to educate, train, fix imprisoned people by trying to get them back into society will be useful and beneficial to the nation and its people , "Wrote Voice of Labor Workers, March-May 1957. Source