O COTIDIANO DO CÁRCERE – UMA FABRICA DE EXPECTATIVA

Abstract

The work aims to discuss daily life in prison and highlight how incarceration is much more than removing individuals who commit crimes from social life. A parallel dimension to society, where the individual excluded from their environment serves their sentence in prisons and must return “recovered”. However, there is a shock and a gap between this restorative proposal and reality. The prison is a mix of unhealthy and degenerate appearance. The concrete of the walls and the iron of the bars and gates merge and outline a cold space, without any mention of having been built for recovery, just removal. Based on the concepts of Foulcaut (1996) who describes the process of institutionalization as being the basis of prisons. Insert the individual into a daily routine of rules and discipline so that he or she can be recovered and readapted to the mold of normality. We point out the process of institutionalization as the stripping away of the individual's characteristics to put on a new one that corresponds to an ideal of society, a series of losses of identity, seeking the conformation of a “docile body”. The intention of this article is to awaken interest not only in the knowledge of what is truly behind bars and to think about another punitive system, which really meets social security, resocializing, not just closing padlocks and returning recovered men to society and not angry and without prospects who will look to crime as a way to survive, soon turning marginality into true social chaos