Cartas de Afeto - Caminhos para a Liberdade: uma experiência comunicativa com mulheres no presídio estadual de Alegrete

Abstract

The present work aims to report on the project Cartas de Afeto – Caminhos para a Liberdade, which is currently carried out with the inmates of the State Prison of Alegrete. To this end, the letter genre is used as a communicative and exchange tool between project participants and the management team. In order to better understand how to spread practices within the prison system, a brief study is made on the history of this system (with characteristics and marks of the period of enslavement) and how criminal justice works today, using research between authors and authors that address this theme and showing that gender, race and class are still determining factors in Brazilian prisons. With this, the aim is not only to show a reality in significant numbers, but to debate and raise awareness that socio-educational projects have a resocializing character when based on affection and engaged pedagogy. Keywords: freedom; reading; prisons; human rights, affection; engaged pedagogy.