Análise do Trabalho Prisional: um Estudo Exploratório

In this exploratory-descriptive research, the author looks into the identification of the factors concerning the present work model in Rio Grande do Sul State prisons, Brazil. This criticized model is responsible for the difficulties in promoting a reasonable resocialization of the prisoners. Simultaneously the author suggests important changes in the conquest of a more expressive achievement toward the expected resocialization. Data were collected in examining penal hanbook and references and chiefly by means of semi-structured interviews with twenty prisoners. Collected data were analyzed according to content methodology; results are presented in five final categories: 1. prisonal work; 2. prison system identity; 3. ideological resocialization; 4. prisonal work influence on personal growth; and 5. prisonal work conditions. It was noticed that Penitentiary Administration ignores the importance of a better relation among psychological motivation, suffering and a legitimate pleasure in accomplishing prisonal imposed work, in overcoming huge problems and challenges and in reaching the intended prisoners' resocialization.