SANTOS, Jaqueline dos.
Résumé:
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.
