摘要:This article is part of the research conducted at the Contemporary Studies Group on Criminal Execution at the Campo Real University Center. The object of study is the Association of Protection and Assistance to the Convicted (APAC) system, specifically the Pato Branco’s/PR APAC and aims to analyze the difference of treatment received by the recovering within the APAC system and in the “traditional” system of criminal execution. It is an exploratory research with a qualitative approach. Individual interviews were conducted, in closed mode (requirement of the research field) and with subsequent content analysis. Twenty (20) recovering participated in the research. Several categories emerged from the analysis, and the one we considered to be the most relevant in the present study: the humanitarian treatment received at APAC. This allowed us to conclude that the APAC system significantly alters the way the recovering itself sees the prison and the treatment delivered by the control agencies, having potential impact on resocialization.