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MARTINS, Letícia Palmeira; BALDANZI, Ana Camilla de Oliveira  e  UZIEL, Anna Paula. Women’s prison and its effects: Gender, care and family. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2024, vol.24, n.2, e13997.  Epub 09-Mar-2026. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v24i2.e13997.

The policy of mass incarceration is a reality that has been increasingly reiterated. When it comes to female incarceration, specifically, Brazil ranks third in the world. In this work, we analyze, based on cartographic research, how the punitive system of deprivation and restriction of freedom affects women who are subject to imprisonment and also how it affects theirfamily support networks. Based on what emerged from work carried out in a women’s prison unit in Rio de Janeiro, through discussion groups with female prisoners, we wrote considerations about what they brought regarding the affections constructed and reconstructed inside and outside the prison, generally in the form of family ties. In this sense, based on the narratives of these women, we seek to give visibility to the formation and maintenance of emotional relationships as an essential means of preserving their lives. Permeated by anguish, violations, and latent faults of deprivation or restriction of freedom, these intra and extramural relationships are pointed out as survival strategies and as lines of escape, a possibility of creating fissures in the rigid prison institution, as well as of being in prison in other ways.

Palavras-chave : prison; women; families; affections; care; gender.

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