O Trabalho Na Prisão: Um Estudo No Instituto De Reeducação Penal Desembargador Sílvio Porto em João Pessoa - PB

Abstract

The emergence of prison considered as main penalty didn't happened to fulfill a humanitarian propose of replacement to old punishments, but rather, to discipline marginalize sectors of emerging capitalism, in the late 18th century and early 19th century, trying to turn the delinquent subjects into to docile subjects by submiting them to a dominant regime. Its function is to not only isolate the offender, but also to retrieve him. Prison labor is a way to introject the convicts a greater obedience to rules, fortifying the discipline in prisons. In this sense, the work as a way to recover the individual linked to the notion of discipline is in the origin of prison, main penalty. This research aims to analyse the work processes in the Penal Institute of Reeducation Judge Sílvio Porto, in João Pessoa, in the point of view of the convicts, in the perspective of understand the meaning of work in the prison to this social actors. The methodology used, of qualitative character, had as criterion the diverse processes of work implemented at the Institution, which are divided into three segments: services to support the Penal Institution, specialized services and production. From these, we assembled a set of forty-six inmates as research participants, divided into five discussion groups Meetings about Labor according to the activity that they performed, with three meetings for each group: 1st group, Balls Factory; 2nd group, kitchen, printer, cartridge recycling and confection of dental prostheses; 3rd group, cleaning and maintenance; 4th group, handicraft; 5th group, sewing balls in the cells. We also performed individual interviews with forty-six inmates, with the Director of Penal Institution, with the Manager of the Balls Factory and with the Judge of Penal Execution of the city of João Pessoa. The process of content of analysis elucidated seven categories: the work as a right; The processes of work, Organization of work process, Relations between convicts; The importance of work; Promotion of freedom and the relation: prison labor and future, composed by subcategories. The process of content analysis elucidated seven categories: Work as a right, work processes, organization of the work process, relations between the convicts; The importance of work, promotion of freedom and prison labor and Future Value, composed of subcategories. The results show that prison work is represented in a positive way, but also denounced, in the midst of this excitement, few job vacancies offered, the paltry wages, the constant lack of legal guarantees of remission of sentence, among other limitations. It is hoped that the results of this research will contribute in the formulation and implementation of social politics directed to the penitentiary system, specifically in what refers the prison labor, so that the interventions in this area occur in consonance to the knowledge produced by the target public of their actions.