A (Des) proteção social das pessoas privadas de liberdade : um lugar chamado prisão

Abstract

The study presented here has as its central theme "The social experiences of the individuals deprived of their liberty regarding access to public social policies in the context of the 4th Penitentiary Region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul" and its main objective is to identify how access to social policies by persons deprived of their liberty. For the production of the study, empirical research was carried out in an exploratory, qualitative way based on the critical dialectic method through semi-structured interviews with 09 individuals who are serving a custodial sentence and with 05 professionals, including 03 administrators and 02 social workers who develop their work activities with three prisons that make up the 4th Regional Penitentiary Police Station, totaling a sample of 14 subjects.The results obtained through the technique of content analysis made it possible to unveil the reality of (dis) social protection experienced by the individuals who serve prison sentences in the prison units of the State. The data presented, both empirical and theoretical, reveal the presence of a minimalist state that has as its central focus the consolidation and expansion of the capitalist mode of production to the detriment of social protection and the guarantee of access to the rights of the imprisoned subjects, who are targets of the most perverse face of the criminal state that criminalizes poverty through socio-historical-cultural processes that legitimize criminal selectivity. As a consequence, services related to public policies when offered do not meet the existing demand, and are in the background to the detriment of security issues. With regard to health services, the lack of care and lack of provision of preventive services, as well as the lack of human, material and financial resources within the prison units, have relegated the health situation to a " Lucky". As for education policy, the few establishments that offer the service do so from the logic of meritocracy, where only prisoners selected by security agents access the service that also guarantees the right to redress. Factor that de-characterizes education as a right that is guaranteed by LEP. The provision of social assistance policy is not perceived by prisoners, not even by prison staff as a right, but rather as a form of aid offered to prisoners deprived of their liberty. In addition, the provision of this policy is subordinated to the compliance of security agents with the needs of the chain, not being offered on a regular basis, but rather when it is possible in the face of the priorities identified by them. The interpretation of the data also made it possible to verify that state inattention falls equally on the penitentiary servers, who experience a day-to-day work involving human, material and financial deprivation. Factors that, consequently, have an impact on the quality and quantity of the services offered to the prison population. In this way, the family and networks of solidarity have been required to play roles that are not theirs as a consequence of the state's lack of responsibility.