Reflexões sobre dignidade da pessoa humana da população carcerária: reforma e ampliação da Cadeia Pública de Saloá-PE (2009-2010).

Abstract

Incarceration is a secular problem in many ways, and Brazil is one of the countries with the largest prison population in the world. This report describes the path taken for the realization of the research whose objective was the renovation and expansion of Saloá’s Public Jail, that ocurred between 2009-2010, involving members of the local comunity and the cities of Águas Belas, Iati and Paranatama. As the main theoretical reference, Michel Foucault was chosen, in “Discipline and punish: birth of prison”, to help understand the topic regarding the modern penal system and the laws for its application according to changes in power relations. The research method used was an inductive type, through qualitative research, with direct and indirect documentation, through bibliographic and documentary research - written and iconographic. As a result of the research, we produced an e-book in which we discuss, in addition to the reform process itself, with issues relating to the growth of prisons in Europe and Brazil, topics concerning education and its importance in the process of reinserting prisoners into society, and, also, as occurred during and through the reform, the search for rescuing the human dignity of the prison population and for the real chance of reinsertion of the detainees.