EDUCAÇÃO, TRABALHO E REINTEGRAÇÃO SOCIAL NA ASSOCIAÇÃO DE PROTEÇÃO E ASSISTÊNCIA AOS CONDENADOS (APAC) DE ITUIUTABA/MG

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze educational and professional formation as social reintegration instrument of individuals deprived of liberty, inmates in the Association for the Protection and Assistance of Convicts (APAC) in the city of Ituiutaba/MG, considering that this institution promotes penalty humanization. From a methodological point of view, this study, with a qualitative approach, was built from bibliographical, documental, and field research. The concepts of prison, education, work, and social reintegration were developed in the research, based on authors such as Baratta (1990), Foucault (1999), Julião (2016), Lira Júnior (2017), Marx (2013), Moura (2019), Onofre (2016), and others. In the end, an educational product was developed, which consisted of a guide, with proposals and suggestions for strengthening the policies of formation and professional qualification of the prison population. Results showed that APAC inmates have a profile similar to others who are part of Brazilian prison population. They are young, black, with low income and education, unemployed and/or underemployed, whose penal infractions are largely associated with crimes against property and drugs. The institution appeared to be more humanizing compared to common prison system. However, there is no planning of programs or projects for formation and professional qualification that may comply with social reintegration policies. The courses, when they occur, are lightened and have no project for a human and integral formation, focusing on meeting the policies of penalty remission and on containing idleness within these prison spaces. In addition, there is no monitoring of ex-inmates, making it impossible to measure whether there was social and productive reintegration of these individuals or not and/or to what extent it happens. Thus, the results of this research are expected to contribute to future studies and research on education and work in non-formal environments, such as the prison system, as a possibility of emancipation and social reintegration of the incarcerated subjects.