This paper presents an analysis of the experiences of an outreach project developed with adolescents sentenced by the state with deprivation of liberty.The project carried out pedagogical workshops using 3 piece horse wall art rap to provide support to correctional measures.Mobilizing strategies from the sociology of literature, we analyzed lyrics produced by adolescents during these workshops to understand their social content.Results highlight the relationship between social inequality and the restriction of imaginary, the nexus between total institutions and the mutilation michael harris sunglasses of the self, the contribution of fabulation through rap to the reestablishment of the symbolic space necessary to restore the right to the imaginary.