<![CDATA[Civic education serves as a strategic instrument for cultivating legal awareness, moral integrity, and national values, including within correctional institutions that face structural problems such as overcrowding and social stigma toward inmates. This study aims to analyze the strategic role of correctional cadets, as prospective civil servants in the corrections sector, in actualizing civic education as a means of fostering national values and supporting the social reintegration of inmates. The research employs a descriptive qualitative method with a library research approach, following Zed procedures involving the collection, critical reading, and synthesis of primary and secondary sources. Data were gathered from laws and regulations, official documents of the Directorate General of Corrections, and national and international academic literature, then analyzed using qualitative content analysis through reduction, thematic categorization, and conclusion drawing. The findings indicate that correctional cadets perform a dual role as learning facilitators, behavioral-change motivators, and exemplars of national values, while also functioning as mediators between correctional institutions and the community in the social reintegration process. Structural challenges such as facility overcrowding, limited field competency, and persistent social stigma hinder the optimal performance of this role, indicating the need for capacity strengthening through pedagogical training, cross-institutional collaboration, and supportive policy from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights grounded in the restorative justice paradigm embedded in Law Number 22 of 2022 concerning Corrections.]]>
