“A gente é esquecida lá dentro”: oportunidades de trabalhos para mulheres nos presídios da 5ª Delegacia Penitenciária Regional do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This research analyzes the work opportunities offered to women incarcerated in the 5th Regional Penitentiary Precinct (5ª DPR) of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which includes Penitenciária Estadual de Rio Grande, Presídio Estadual de Camaquã, Presídio Estadual de Canguçu, Presídio Estadual de Jaguarão, Presídio Estadual de Santa Vitória do Palmar, and Presídio Regional de Pelotas. Highlighting being Work a Social Right constitutionally assured. The work opportunities are analyzed alongside capacitation to work, having in sight the perspective of promoting social insertion and job market insertion. The relevance of the theme comes from the fact that the work of incarcerated women has particularities that make it different from the male work, which are proven primarily through theoretic sources of the criminal and the feminist criminologies. Some of those are their presence in an adapted male environment, the reproduction of the social ideal of female work, focusing on domestic services in the establishment, maintenance, cleaning, cooking, artisanal work and sewing, and the small number of projects about female labor. These factors lead to a greater vulnerability of incarcerated women. It is used a hypothesis that the work opportunities offered to incarcerated women is not sufficient to reach the goal of improaving the work perspectives and the social insertion of women egress from the prison system. The methods used are the feminist method of the woman question (BARTLETT, 1990), the empirical method, and the statistical method, this being a qualitative investigation. The research universe includes egress women and membros of the Community Council of the region.