Mínimos para (sobre)viver: discussão sobre as ações de atendimento às mulheres privadas de liberdade na região metropolitana de Natal-RN

Abstract

The phenomenon of supercarceration in Brazil, which has been potentiated in recent decades, exposes cruel aspects of the Criminal Justice System, which are anchored in cishéteropatriarchal-racist-classist ideologies. Thus, it is evident the importance of discussing oppressions of class, race and gender, in an imbricated way, relating them to criminal selectivity. In this way, it is important to bring the discussion of Marxist Feminism about patriarchal gender relations intertwined with social relations of class and race. In addition to these problematizations, the debate brings about the increasing scrapping of prison units from north to south of the country, besides the degrading conditions in which deprivation of liberty occurs - reports of torture, mistreatment, forced labor, precarious sanitary conditions and absence of apparatus (technical-strategic, human and material). Considering such problems, this work aims to discuss the actions of care in education, health and religious assistance for women deprived of their liberty in female prison units in the metropolitan region of Natal-RN. Ten people are part of this research, as interlocutors in the field, directly or indirectly responsible for the service actions and for the management of the areas of operation. The collection procedures and instruments used were: documentary and field research, through semi-structured interviews. The results showed that female prison units have a precarious physical structure that imposes unhealthy conditions and, therefore, limits the guarantee of women's rights. In addition, there was an insufficiency and discontinuity of care in the three areas analyzed. The situation of women imprisoned in the metropolitan region of Natal-RN exposes the gap that is placed between the formal, what is to be done, and the material, what really happens, sharpening absences and becoming a state reinforcement machine and ratification of a genocidal public security policy for the extermination of those who are marked by the judgment of class and race.