Gestantes e crianças encarceradas: etnografando o dia da visita da família no Presídio Júlia Maranhão (João Pessoa-PB)

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the dynamics and social practices experienced by pregnant women and children in the Júlia Maranhão Complex, a female prison in João Pessoa-PB. The inclusion of the pregnant woman in the research aimed at the reflection on the gestation of the babies, the prenatal and delivery. The research consists of a survey of ethnographic data through participant observation, direct contact with respondents, reports, statements from various interlocutors, such as: the pregnant women, the child, mothers, grandmothers and penitentiary agents, the laws and the theoretical foundations of authors of the Anthropology and Sociology of Childhood, Psychology and Law. The use of the complementary technique of the drawing provided a greater dynamics in that prison space, promoted the acceptance, made me be observed by the children as the teacher. The social dynamics of that prison unit are more evident on Sunday, the day of the visit. The pregnant women who were during the period of the survey were not observed in the dynamics of the day of visit, since they did not receive visits, and therefore remained in the cell during all the time 15. On Sunday, children interact with their families on sheets, in a "territorialized" space, analogous to "islands", disputed with adults in the midst of much food brought from home to a meeting full of joy. Children suffer, are searched, rejoice, play, agency, reproduce and, above all, re-signify spaces, such as the area of visitation and the "panoptic" room.