A biblioteca da penitenciária Desembargador Silvio Porto: história e práticas leitoras

Abstract

Little is known about the structure of the Brazilian prison system the less we know about the reading practices carried out within this prison context. In principle, we understand the reading space as an environment that leads us to a practice of freedom, space that allows the reader to penetrate a world without limits. Recognizing that a space directed to the practice of reading can positively influence within a closing context, the object of study of this work is the library / reading room of the Penitentiary Judge Silvio Porto and the reader practices carried out from this space. Taking us to the following questions: How do you create a library inside a prison unit? What reader practices exist starting this space? Contemplating the horizon of these questions, this work aims to constitute the history of the library / reading room of the Penitentiary Judge Silvio Porto, in order to know the reader practices that take place from this space. In order to meet the objective we propose, we observed the space of the library / reading room of this penitentiary, the book cataloging and loans, we made photographic records and we interviewed the agent responsible for the resocialization sector of this unit and the responsible person responsible for the space of the school/library. research is characterized by being a field research, based on bibliographical and documentary and is inserted in the qualitative interpretative model. In order to better understand the reading practices carried out inside the libraries, we support authors such as Manguel (1997), Chartier (1999), Goulemot (2011), Fisher (2006), Espíndula (2015), among others. Deeper into the issues of prisons we rely on Foucault (1979, 2014). We can conclude that, sadly, the library / reading space is a space that works precariously, however, without the due attention of the public power for its effective functioning. Despite the malfunctioning and all the problems that involve this space, we find a craft organization of books, which serves as a guide for those who use this space. We realize that despite all the precariousness of this space, there is a bibliographical collection available for this audience and there are intramural reading practices, such as the reading club project, developed by a volunteer teacher, where the meetings take place weekly with discussions and workshops. Using a book every thirty days, during the meetings the grieving people talk about the works and write a review of the book.