Ordem e disciplina, sentimentos e emoções: uma história da Penitenciária de Alcaçuz

Abstract

In this work, we intend to analyze the space of the State Penitentiary Alcaçuz (PEA), which opened in 1998 and located in the county of Nisia Floresta (RN), which houses na average of Thousand men in fulfillment of deprivation of liberty in closed regime. With regard to theoretical contribution, we will use mainly the authors Michel Foucault (disciplinary institution), Augusto Thompson (power system), Erving Goffman (total institution), Yi-Fu Tuan (place) and Michel de Certeau (subjectivity). Therefore, we intend to demonstrate that the prison is a multifaceted space, sometimes can be understood as an space of objectivities, where order and discip line prevails, sometimes can be understood as a place permeated by subjectivity of its members (prison guards, inmates and visitors). In this sense, we see the existence of three prominent places: the place of reunion (from the perspective of visitors), the place of imprisonment (from the perspective of inmates) and the place of work (from the perspective of prison guard). Therefore, we seek interrogate these places, questioning how these people have been occupying and appropriating the prison space? And what this space has been producing in these people? For the development of the work were used in addition to other sources, interviews with prison guards, inmates and visitors, using the methodology of oral history.