A escola por trás dos muros da prisão: percepções de alunos detentos sobre educação, religião e vida cotidiana

Abstract

This study´s intention is to understand how inmates elaborate their everyday life in prison and to what extend education and religion available prisons facilities can contribute to the social re-education of these incarcerated persons. The research have been conducted under the perspective that the prison population is manly composed by persons who have been marked by social vulnerability and not given the access to the fundamental rights and citizenship. For those persons, the prison school is seen as a place of sociability and as an opportunity of change as well, once it portrays alternative ways to criminal life. The observation was done in four different schools locate in prison´s units in Rio de Janeiro. This paper has an ethnographic perspective that uses prisoners narratives about education and religion as a methodological resource. Thru testimonies and interviews it seeks to indentify experiences that have produced meaning and reveal ways to elaborate everyday life by the inmate-students in the context of the schools inside the prison system.