The meaning of work for the re-socialization of inmates in Brazil

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the perspectives of work for re-education in the prison system. The study is based on the methodology of Minayo (1994), which identifies a research cycle composed of an exploratory phase, the field work and the treatment of the collected material. The exploratory phase and the field research phase were limited to capturing and revealing the ontological perspective of the subject who entered the prison system and had the opportunity to join the project Beyond Beyond Prisons. The interviews took place at the Darcy Ribeiro University campus, in the period from October to November 2019. That said, work is found as a central point of the research as a way to resolve the alienation and estrangement of individuals within the prison, as well as their perspectives for the social coexistence of the graduate, realizing that work works as an effective connection to reduce recidivism indices and transform the individual ontologically. It is concluded in this way that the transformation of the prison structure is essential so that, in addition to fulfilling the social function of the sentence, it provokes the individual in his autonomy, responsibility and social inclusion, through working on the ontology of the issue, to the point of to verify how such biases behave in the practical and empirical field.