Reinserção de presos: projeto começar de novo implantado no Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de Goiás

Abstract

This research is part of the Strictu Sensu Post Graduation Program in Education, regarding the research field of State, Politics and Educational Institutions, of the Pontifice Universidade Católica de Goiás, and is inserted in the studies addressing education in reentry programs for offenders that are part of the Projeto Começar de Novo (Start Again Project), taking place in the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de Goiás premises. The general purpose of this analysis was to study the reentry process of penal system offenders amid the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de Goiás, while the specific objectives were: identify the profile of the parolees that work at the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de Goiás; analyze if the services that they are executing are related to the abilities they possess for the function; evaluate the learning they are obtaining for their professional reintegration and investigate the educational and work concepts that are applied to the offenders of the prison penal system that are being reeducated in Goiás, in partnership with the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de Goiás. For those reasons, the project implementation was analyzed, taking into consideration the work practices applied and having as main questions: if they are effective or not as of the return of the felon to the work force; the personal relationships in this environment and the administration's interest in complying with the penal legislation recommendations. The relationships between social classes where economic, cultural and political powers create distortions between the rich and the poor were the basis for the theoretical referential of this work. Therefore, Goffman's theoretical contribution demonstrates the role of prisons as totalitarian institutions; Foucault's presents the judicial forms and the disciplinary role of prisons; and Bourdieu contributes with the concepts of area, capital and the symbolic power. It is also utilized the concept of symbolic violence throughout the context of the research. The research nature is quali-quantitative, by means of the application of a questionnaire, as well as in loco observation of the work done by the parolees, since the location where the work is done is coincidentally the researcher's workplace. It was also acquired access to documents that attest to the funds applied to the project, its duration, number of participants and disciplinary criteria. The research was done by interviewing 15 members of the reentry program, interviews that happened during the Covid-19 pandemic, so that to repeat or expand the intended questions became difficult. However, the subjects were encouraged to report their impressions about the project and to complement their responses to the objective questions using an extra sheet of paper. The research also aimed at the evaluation of the offender's profile, including genre, age, level of education, as well as the family members' educational attainment, the legal representation they had or not and the personal relationships in the workplace. The data collected shows evidences that the services executed don't follow the legislation proposal that recommends partnerships with technical education institutions. Consequently, the works they execute are solely aimed at the development of routine tasks that are taught and executed on a daily basis. It was also observed that their labor rights are not applied and that the discrimination in the workplace is widespread