Remição de pena pela leitura na Penitenciaria de Segurança Máxima Criminalista Geraldo Beltrão: despertando para a liberdade

Abstract

The remission of the penalty (imprisonment) through reading is a project that uses the practice of reading as a tool for the development of citizenship, training and dissemination of the pleasure of reading, as well as the process of humanization and re-socialization, in addition to a possible reduction of imprisonment. As such, the research aims to analyze the importance of reading as a process of re- socialization in the Maximum Security Penitentiary Criminalist Geraldo Beltrão. Methodologically, it is an applied research with exploratory and descriptive objectives. It has a qualitative approach, using bibliographic, documentary and field study. The semi-structured interview technique is used as a data collection source. The director of the prison unit was interviewed. To organize and analyze the data, the Content Analysis method was adopted. It could be seen that the library acts in line with the remission of the penalty (imprisonment) through reading project, with a view to subsidizing the state law of remission through reading developed in the prison unit. Difficulties faced by the remission through reading project of the Maximum Security Penitentiary Criminalist Geraldo Beltrão are evidenced, such as: lack of implementation of reading actions in the existing spaces for the prison library, need to hire a Librarian and absence of a planned process of selection and acquisition of materials. The existence of positive factors, which justify the effectiveness of the remission through reading project, is identified. They are: reduction in recidivism rates, zero homicides in the unit, zero escapes in the unit, zero rebellions and riots in the last eight years. It is noteworthy that the lack of specialized professionals to manage the library hinders the actions of this organization with regard to meeting the project's objectives. We conclude that the library continues to be seen and propagated as an instrument that enables and promotes detainees to return to social life and that the role of the librarian is to assist in the elaboration of projects such as the remission of penalty through reading, creating new perspectives and opportunities for detainees.