Compondo vidas, tecendo destinos: conflitos, territorialidades e trajetórias individuais na penitenciária do Serrotão em Campina Grande-Pb.

Abstract

In the present work, we seek to investigate the process of (re) construction of the identities manipulated and / or elaborated by Serrotão penitentiaries in Campina Grande-PB. During the investigation period, 27 prisoners were interviewed out of a total of 650 who were in prison. In addition to the interviews, we also sought to elements of everyday prison life that could hardly have been had made use of ethnographic research, with observations made not only during "official" days for interviews, but mainly through visits and informal conversations with the prisoners during the days when they could receive friends and family. The analyzes carried out show that in addition to dichotomies commonly used by inmates to define themselves as good or bad, there is a set of self-defining references and identification of others that are combined and used according to the situations experienced and in line with the possible interests in each relational event.