Abstract
The article deals with the emergence and forms of prison since Western modernity, its objectives and practices adapted according to the political, economic, social, cultural context and capitalist interests. It questions the purpose of the creation and maintenance of prisons. The objective of the work is to analyze what interests prison historically serves. The main planned and implemented prison models were presented; prison in capitalism and the discourse of social resocialization. The study is the result of a qualitative research approach, data collection was carried out through bibliographic and documentary review and the analytical method was dialectical historical materialism. The main authors used were Michael Foucault, Wacquant Loic, Aguirre Carlos, Bitencourt Cezar, Thompson Augusto and Baratta Alessandro. The results demonstrated that prison and punishment are reconfigured with each socioeconomic, historical, political or ideological transformation at different times and intersect according to capitalist interests. It was identified that prison is not capable of resocialize or reinstate, however, it controls a certain population and guarantees the maintenance of large capital.
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