Educação de jovens e adultos no contexto prisional paulista: um olhar sobre as políticas públicas.

Abstract

This research is linked to the Graduate Program in Education, in Research Line 1 - Public Policies in Education, Educational Practices and Diversity and aims to analyze the process of education for young people and adults in the São Paulo prison context, in the light of officially instituted public policies. It has as the research problem the following question: to what extent public policies have offered conditions of access to the right to education in prison? In order to answer to such inquiry, a systematic overview of the relevant current legislation was drawn.to the theme and official statistics relating to the prison system will be evaluated. especially access to educational activities in prisons, as well as possible factors hindering access and the permanence of the custodian to such school activities will be identified, in light of the historical prison context marked by precariousness of the facilities, the insufficiency of vacancies, the performance of criminal groups and other ailments characteristic of this scenario. As for the methodological approach, it is qualitative-quantitative research, of documentary nature, starting from an analysis of norms established in the national and international legal system, as well as the survey of statistical data for further analysis of a educational specific context. With regard to the instruments used or sources of data, this was done through access to information made available by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, presented in Reports of the National Penitentiary Department - DEPEN (National Survey of Prison Information). The form of data analysis will be descriptive, as well as through inference of the information raised in the context to be researched. The documentary research results reveal that the history of the prison system São Paulo, marked by its exponential growth, notably from the1990, as well as the influence of so-called criminal factions, contribute to, in addition to the overcrowding of prisons, the lack of spaces appropriate, in sufficient measure to meet the existing demand, end upmaking the right to education a merely formal public policy, that is, although there is plenty of legislation (international, national and local) to ensure this right, this does not happen in pragmatic terms, since there are no material conditions therefore.