convicts, with plastic and bottle caps. He explains that the main idea is that through chess, with its many advantages, the rehabilitees will be able to develop positive habits and exercise their capacity for making decisions. Library of APAC-Itauna corrective facilities Chess trainer Walter Ferreira Junior Attention and concentration of the students Training and discipline Pieces made from bottle caps Full concentration during the classes The chess trainer playing against his students The classes are held in the APACs library for the closed and half-open rehabilitees. The wardens support this kind of activity and encourage the men to take part in it. APAC-Itauna is both nationally and internationally a reference when talking about rehabilitation of convicts. Almost every day there are people from all over the country and also from other parts of the world visiting the place, interested about taking the institutions philosophy worldwide. APAC of Itauna is affiliated to the Prison Fellowship International (PFI), consultative part of the ONU (Organization of United Nations) for penitentiary subjects, and to the Brazilian Fraternity for Assistance of the Condemned (FBAC), an entity that gathers, supervises and supports all APACs in Brazil. Turn me loose from your hands Let me fly to distant lands Over green fields, trees and mountains Flowers and forest fountains Home along the lanes of the skyway Skyline Pigeon, Elton John What is APAC? The Association for Protection and Assistance to the Condemned is a private rights civil entity, with its own juridical personality, dedicated to the recovery and social reintegration of those condemned to sentences without parole. Supported by the Federal Constitution to act inside prisons, it has its Statute guarded by the Civil Code and by the Penal Execution Law. APAC operates as an auxiliary entity for the Judiciary and Executive Powers, executing sentences and administrating them with this kind of alternative work. Goals: The APACs goals are to promote humanization of the prison system without losing the first objective to make the sentenced learn from their mistakes. The proposal is to avoid relapses to crime and offer alternative ways for the sentenced to recover. Method: The APACs work consists of valorizing human kindness, offering to the condemned conditions to recover. It also looks, in a wider perspective, for the protection of the society and promoting justice and help to the victims. The main difference between the APAC and the common prison system is that at APAC, the rehabilitees are co-responsible for their own recovery, and receive spiritual, medical, psychological and juridical assistance from the city community. Their discipline and safety are kept with their own cooperation, with volunteers, employees and managers, without the presence of the police. They also have professional courses to avoid idleness and learn how to behave. Methodology is based on a rigid discipline, respect, work and family. Another difference is in the execution of the sentence is that it forces the condemned to stay in his own hometown. First Chess Tournament APAC-Itauna Dr. Mario Ottoboni The event, which took place on July, had four pre-selected chess players chosen by the coordinator and referee