This paper inquires into the tactical dispositions that the religious discourse of the prisoners experiencing jail leaving situation assumes, based on an empirical work developed in the 3rd Penitentiary Unit of Rosario, Argentina. In that regard, it seeks to describe the social order in religious cell blocks —also called churches, as well as its relations with the Penitentiary Service. The main objective is, on the one hand, to reflect on the dynamic of religious discourse inside the prison, and on the other, to analyze the growing of religious cell blocks as a governance strategy developed by the Penitentiary Service. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X57