Prisões e sociedade – sobre a pedagogia social da reclusão

Abstract

Prior to the manner in which the prisoner is seen and treated in prison ts the relationship established by society with prison itself. Even though this relationship is not evident, it is in the bssis of all kinds of treatment towards the convict. It generates not only the management models, but also the riots. The relstionship between society and prisons is made up of a duality made of absences and presences, distance and interests, where the most primitive feeling is curiosity, and the deeper one, perhaps, a strong desire for the convict to be kept there forever. In many ways society plays an important role in all the processes preceding a conviction, and in those that develop through the imprisonment term as well as after it. We must understand the ways, the extension and the merit of the transversalities between society and exclusion, criminality and prisons in order to be able to change them.