Educação popular e encarceramento: um estudo sobre remição pela leitura no presídio Desembargador Sílvio Porto em João Pessoa/PB

Abstract

Educating people in freedom restriction and deprivation in the Brazilian political scenario is mostly discussed from the point of view of two main aspects. The first one concerns the objectives of criminal execution and, with effect, the resignification of the punitive nature of the penalty by applying measures that involve remaining rights to the person deprived of liberty. The second one defends that the education aimed at this public passes, in structural and methodological terms, through the Youth and Adult Education policy. Thus, the remission of the penalty appears in this scenario as an emerging factor and provides the prison units the possibility of boosting educational activities through goals that are more coherent with the socio-educational process of the incarcerated subjects.Therefore, this research has the goal of comprehending the meanings constructed by the subjects in situation of deprivation of liberty who participate in reading activities in the prison unit Desembargador Silvio Porto in relation to the experience of remission through reading. For this, inspired in principles of Popular Education as an educational trend that contributed for the elucidation of the formative processes of the reading practices analyzed, participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used as a way of producing the qualitative data of the research, furthermore, the data treatment, in terms of interpretation and analysis, was based upon the instruction on how to analyze qualitative data thought up. Henceforth, through the reflection of scientific thought made possible by Symbolic Interactionism as an epistemological current that directed the movement of the investigations postulated in this research, some discursive results were achieved, such as: 1) The function of imprisonment is (re)thought by the inmates as a way of explicit punishment and as a disciplinary form of behavior and of social practice; 2) The opportunity of reading in the prison environment provides a way of reframing the prison experience, illustrating possible scenarios of a sentence that is better executed in terms of reeducation and; 3) The project of remission through reading presents itself as motivational and elucidates more effective practices of education and formation of readers in the prison space.