Mulheres encarceradas: as múltiplas violências

Abstract

The alarming progress of incarcerated women is a recent phenomenon and is reaching a field of great discussions. This a fact that indicates the importance of talking about the gender perspective in the prison system. In other words, it ensures that their specificities and their rights are no longer invisible and abused. This paper aims to expose part of the problems in the prison’s system that are done in our country, by discussing violence in institutional, social and family contexts, gender and routine in the female prison setting. To do so, it will be used official data and research on the theme of women's imprisonment and their specificities, and these numbers will be analyzed through a socio-historical view. Violence against women in the prison system has always existed, in its many inadequacies of the prison space, perpetuated directly in physical, psychological and sexual punishment and in more veiled practices, such as keeping women away from her family, moral judgment of society, the abandonment of (the) partners (as), institutional neglect among others. The prison, in this current model, isn’t functional for offenders, being them men or women, because its punitive model isn’t effective and only contributes to increase rate among the prison population