Confinamento cultural: a remição da pena pela leitura no sistema penal paranaense

Abstract

The possibility of a person in deprivation of freedom decreasing their time of confinement through study, reading or work activity is a benefit that has a constitutional provision through Law No. 7,210 / 84 of Criminal Execution (LEP). Considering the importance of reading for the human and citizen formation of those who are deprived of freedom and the impacts they provide on their lives and on society, this study seeks to answer the question: How does reading contribute to the re-socialization of the inmates? The general objective is to investigate how the incentive to reading can help to re-socialize the individual in deprivation of freedom. The specific objectives aim to present data that can contribute to encouraging the resocialization of prisoners through reading; identify which factors hinder the formation of readers in the prison system; verify literary genres that are part of the remission of sentences project through reading and understand how reading is able to broaden the sympathetic look at oneself and the other, generating empathy and changes in conduct, consequently reducing the period of confinement. The methodology used is based on bibliographic research and document analysis, based on a qualitative approach that was developed with the study of literature involving the theme. The studies carried out confirm that reading is essential to human life and plays a fundamental role in changing the perspective of a person in a confinement regime, who, in the majority, are poor, black and brown and have not completed elementary school.