“Existirmos, a que será que se destina?”: um estudo sobre o Pronatec Prisional/Mulheres Mil na Penitenciária Feminina de Teresina-PI

Abstract

The study presented in this thesis sought to analyze the Pronatec Prisional/Mulheres Mil and the pedagogical practices of this program in order to understand its effects on the women incarcerated in the Female Penitentiary of Teresina/PI who participated in one of the technical professional courses carried out. In addition, we sought to understand how the social insertion of women in the Female Penitentiary of Teresina-PI has been thematized by the program. The thesis aimed to analyze, from the narratives of the women deprived of their liberty and those who have already served their sentence, the extent in which Pronatec Prisonal/Mulheres Mil has led to the process of subjectification within the Female Penitentiary in the city of Teresina PI. It also sought to identify and describe the different aspects of Pronatec Prisonal/Mulheres Mil and its implementation in order to study how the integration of the ex-convicts is specified in the Program and which directions it takes in the prison system in Teresina. We also analyze how gender relations are present in the context of the imprisonment of women, in particular in relation to the implementation of Pronatec Prisional/Mulheres Mil. The empirical material was gathered by conducting semi-structured interviews, of the comprehensive type, with five women from the prison, among inmates and ex-convicts of the baker course, offered between the years of 2017 and 2018. In addition, we used the analysis of documents that relate to the implementation, offer and execution of the program Mulheres Mil within the penitentiary of Teresina and, also, reports of the Social Office in Piauí. It was taken into account, for the analysis of the empirical material, aspects that directly or indirectly cross and interfere with the power-knowledge relations overlaid in the aforementioned educational activity. Thus, with Foucaultian inspiration, and from scholars such as Goffman, Ball, Dardot and Laval, among others, the analysis was divided into two dimensions. One dimension refers to the manufacture of bodies from the narratives about prison, in which the discussion about remission is inserted and the conception of prison from the perspective of those who are imprisoned and those who are free, in addition to the stigmatization they carry. In the other dimension, the reflections that involve the gender relations and reintegration of these women into the labor market under the logic of neoliberal rationality are evidenced.