Desafios da educação profissional na cadeia pública feminina de Boa Vista

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to investigate the professional education in the Women's Public Prison in Boa Vista-Roraima. The female population in Roraima's prison system has considerably increased, with incarceration for drug dealing standing out and reaching up to about 92% among the women being reeducated. The increase of the female population in the prisons during the period of 2000 to 2014 was 567.4%, while the average male population growth in the same period was of 220.20%. Low schooling and lack of qualification are determining factors for joining criminality as the obtaining of easy money is the attraction for subsistence and for progress without ethics. This is the consequence of capitalism in the less favored social class, in this case, women. This is a qualitative and exploratory research. The methods used were a mixed questionnaire, interviews and participatory observation in the prison school environment. The participants in this study included 62 inmates in the Women's Public Prison in Boa Vista, aged between 18 and 60 years, the Prison Director of the unit and representatives of the Federal Institute of Roraima and National Service of Industrial Learning. Responses were categorized according to the content analysis. The results show that 50% of the participants are aged between 18 and 29, are single, brown-skinned, with incomplete elementary education, serving in imprison for a maximum of six months and studying in the prison unit. They are interested in professionalization, however offers of professionalization are occasional, and no planning has been identified to meet the needs of the inmates. Therefore, starting from the contextualization of precepts of scholars of prison systems and the results obtained, the importance of access to education in the prison system as a Resocialization Public Policy becomes evident. Hence, social reintegration deserves to be discussed, not only as a matter of public safety, acting only to repress, but primarily in the enforcement of fundamental rights and guarantees, such as health, education, work, assistance, that is, recognition of the individual in conflict with the law as a subject of rights belonging to society and who will return to society.