Abstract

GUEDES, Marcela Ataide. Psychosocial interventions in the female prison system. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2006, vol.26, n.4, pp. 558-569. ISSN 1414-9893.

One of the means of perception of the increase of violence in the current society can be measured by the growth of the incarcerated population, what possibly contributes to the breaking of human rights. Singularities have already been observed in relation to female inmates, what makes the matter still more difficult to be faced due to few available data. The present study aimed to investigate this population in order to contribute to the knowledge about this group. Through the psychological shift in a police station in Belo Horizonte we received spontaneous statements from 67 women from August 2004 to July 2005. The women's age ranged from 18 to 42 and the sentence length from 1 to 36 months. An analysis of the themes for the issues brought by the inmates showed characteristics such as everyday life in prison, maternity/family relationships, internal and external love relationships and gender relationships. Individual and group strategies were listed to facilitate the everyday internal dynamic: family / parental attachment, religious practice, handicraft workshops, cleaning work and inmates' love relationships.

Keywords : Female prison system; Social exclusion; Social Psychology.

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