TRABALHO PRISIONAL E VULNERABILIDADE SOCIAL: IMPACTOS NA VIDA DOS EGRESSOS DO SISTEMA CARCERÁRIO EM DOIS EXTREMOS DO BRASIL

Abstract

The penitentiary problematic represents one of the greatest challenges to be faced by social policies and jails. Prison labor, establishing itself as a point of convergence between several different purposes conferred, contemporaneously, the capital punishment, meets, among other meanings, those who drive for understanding as a "transformative" intervention protagonist instrument in the life of inmates. Despite the possible ambiguities that entails meaning of prison labor in their configurations, we perceive it in our study as a motivating factor for the reflections and their exploitation in combating the social vulnerability of prisoners and individuals targeted by criminal selectivity. In this sense, we seek from this thesis unveilings subsidies from individuals belonging to two opposite geographically regional realities able to provide a critical analysis of the impacts that the work in prison strikes with the perspectives of life of inmates in their paths of returning to social life. The locations of data collection - Institute of Penitentiary Administration of Amapá/AP and Canguçu State Prison/RS - were chosen with the purpose of establishing tensioners contrasts of influences that the social, economic and cultural characteristics of each region register in the operation of the prison job by their administrators, as well as their responsiveness on the part of inmates of the prison system. For the pursuit of these objectives, sociological contributions of Michel Foucault, David Garland and Gustavo Busso were fundamental on the transmutations regarding the mechanism of power relations between social control and criminal selectivity, and notions concerning social vulnerability, respectively