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This study, based on Marxian theory, aims to fill an existing gap in discussions on modern slavery, i.e., the role of the state in institutionalized slavery. We analyze how the participation of the state in social relations, which has built and permeates the penal system, has transformed part of the working class, mostly composed of young and Black people that previously were part of the reserve army of labor, into an imprisoned reserve army of labor, allowing it to be exploited under conditions akin to slavery. We used the method of historical materialism to understand the essence of social relations that we observed over an eight-month period using on-site (in loco) research in seventeen prison units in the state of Minas Gerais and semi-structured interviews. Our analysis allowed us to grasp the expression of the working class overcoming common moral sense, as it is irrelevant whether industrial activities are legal or illegal from the perspective of value and capital accumulation. The difference lies in the particularity of Brazilian capitalist development, which imposed on Black people an intense process of impoverishment due to their initial exclusion from the processes of capitalist exploitation, determining a place for this population with numerous obstacles to the sale of their workforce in the sectors developed under capitalism and in unequal conditions of pay. In this way, with the development of Brazilian capitalism, we see the historical constitution of a predominantly Black stagnant superpopulation, in which the maximum amount paid for their working time is the minimum wage, incorporated by the State into slave labor in prison, especially from the political of rehabilitation and private management1 of the prison system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O objetivo deste artigo é traçar considerações preliminares a respeito de relatórios produzidos por assistentes sociais às Comissões Técnicas de Classificação (CTC) no Rio de Janeiro. A partir de uma amostra de 25 processos em fase de execução penal, perscrutamos suas narrativas concebendo tais documentos enquanto parte de um caminho invisível do processo disciplinador das prisões, mas, também de um labirinto que condiciona as movimentações técnicas intramuros para caminhos preconcebidos pelo próprio sistema.

Baseado em pesquisa etnográfica e análise documental, o artigo analisa a implementação do monitoramento eletrônico de pessoas no Maranhão durante os anos subsequentes à série de massacres no Complexo Penitenciário de Pedrinhas. Mobilizou-se dados estatísticos sobre o crescimento da população prisional maranhense e o desenvolvimento dos programas de monitoramento entre 2014 e 2018. O texto recupera o conceito de ornitorrinco, de Chico de Oliveira, para descrever os processos de acoplamento entre o velho e o novo, o arcaico e o moderno, o imundo e o asséptico.

The article reveals the functionality of the entrepreneurial ideology present in the political formulation of access to work in prison. It is understood that this type of work also suffers the impacts of the new morphology of work. It is argued that mass incarceration is a result of the penal state. It also considers that access to penal labor policies in prison is constituted by contradictions and expropriations of a neoliberal nature. The study concludes that access minimizes the life of the individual deprived of liberty and hides the expropriations that interest capital, thus evidencing the neoliberal logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The application of remission of penalty by reading: discourses and practices seek to present the policy of remission of penalty by reading in the state of Santa Catarina, through interviews with coordinators responsible for these initiatives in two prison units. They decide on the procedures taken, the operational dynamic, and select the books and evaluation criteria. In addition to bringing together and comparing the two projects of reference through reading, the work proposes to investigate the moral intentions and the ends envisaged and achieved in the coordinators' speeches. As a result, it was identified that there are still no systematized data on the recidivism of participants in penalty remission projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Between Care and Custody: How Prison Officers Perceive Their Work in Minas Gerais reveals how prison officers in Minas Gerais perceive their work, whether it is focused on guaranteeing order or on care--a word traditionally associated with resocialization activities in prison. We analyzed whether the workers' sex has any influence on how they perceive their work, through the analysis of 1,525 online questionnaires self-administered between 2014 and 2015, and semi-structured interviews carried out with 10 women and 13 men working in prisons between 2016 and 2018. In their perception, the maintenance of order and security is the main objective of the profession. The similarities of the discourses of women and men indicate the adoption of masculinity values, such as the use of force and brutality, seen as essential to maintain order in the prison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]