Marginalizadas, desviantes e “abandonadas”: análise dos impactos das visitas na Penitenciária Regional Feminina de Campina Grande/PB.

Abstract

The duty of the State is not only to punish, but to do so in such a way as not to become a violator of its own sanctions, safeguarding the rights of its wards. And, this turns out to be one of the serious problems of Brazilian prisons, which after more than two centuries have not achieved the goal of "reforming" the incarcerated. However, when approaching the female prison universe and the reality of these beings, there is a punishment based on gender ideology and the patriarchal system, relegating criminals to abandonment. Thus, the general objective of this work is to investigate the origin of this scenario and to analyze how the reception of visitors crosses the lives of the inmates of the Regional Women's Penitentiary of Campina Grande/PB. To this end, a study was developed using a preliminary interdisciplinary theoretical framework involving the theme in question. In a second moment, field excursions were made on the days destined for the social visit in order to analyze the relational web between visitor and prisioners visited through ethnographic observation and seeking to establish contact with the visiting relatives of that unit. Finally, data related to visitors to each custodian were collected. In summary, it was crystal clear that women are the people who most visit encarcerated women in prison, leaving for those who broke social rules, helplessness as part of punishment, with the ideal that loneliness contributes to the development of a new identity and to the repentance of the acts that locked them up.