O espaço escolar no território prisional: a Escola Paulo Freire e a educação de sujeitos privados de liberdade no Complexo Penitenciário do Serrotão.

Abstract

Prison education is a crucial component in the search for the resocialization of individuals serving sentences in the prison system. The educational process plays an essential role in reducing criminal recidivism, developing skills and promoting the dignity and human rights of subjects deprived of liberty, in addition to being an obligation of the State in granting this right to all these subjects. A referencia in prison education in Brazil, the Paulo Freire State School of Elementary and Secondary Education, located in the Serrotão Prison Complex, in the city of Campina Grande, in Agreste Paraibano, is responsible for offering education, in the Youth and Adult Education modality 3 EJA, inside the Serrotão Prison Complex, in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba. The main objective of this research is to analyze the dynamics of Escola Paulo Freire, as an educational space inserted in a prison territory, which, while it includes, also excludes with regard to the limited number of places due to the size of its infrastructure and available human and material resources, as well as the fragility of public education and prison administration policies in Brazil. The work presents bibliographic and documentary research as a methodology, as well as the application of questionnaires applied to teachers and students at the school, giving the research, in addition to the qualitative, also the quantitative character.The results of this research aim to propose a more detailed understanding of the problem, whilst seeking to praise education, highlighting its importance in reducing crime and, in promoting resocialization and respect for human rights.