Execução penal e dignidade da mulher no cárcere: uma visão por trás das grades

Abstract

Over the last few years, there has been a large increase in the female prison population, which has historically remained invisible in a penitentiary system conceived by and for men. Considering the predominant profile of women incarcerated in the country, as well as the fact that drug trafficking related crimes are the main factor of female imprisonment, the aim was to present the mechanisms of criminal selectivity based on the dominant socioeconomic values since the emergence of women's prisons in the country, to understand, from an intersectional perspective, the systems of subordination traditionally incident on the incarcerated woman. Mobilizing this theoretical framework, it was intended to investigate, based on the conditions of prison life and the internal codes of conduct in prison, to what extent the punishment effectively served by the inmates (real punishment) would appear more imposing a penalty imposed on the sentence (fictitious penalty), as a way to provide substrate to the operators of the right to rethink the female prison issue. For that, empirical research was carried out at the Nelson Hungria Prison, the Talavera Bruce Prison and the Maternal and Child Unit, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, adopting the ethnographic method and semi-structured qualitative interviews, in order to study, in the field, through the narrative of the inmates, the impact of the functioning of the prison system on their bodies.