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Introduction: Life in incarceration is permeated by challenges from different areas, perceptions about how women perceive health and their process of illness in the prison environment are fundamental to broaden the discussions that can reduce the iniquities to which they are exposed. Objective: To know and reflect on the perception of the health-disease process from the point of view of re-education. Method: This is a descriptive and exploratory research, with a qualitative approach developed in a Female Public Chain of a municipality in the northern region of Mato Grosso along with 57 convicted or provisional women. The data collection was carried out in October 2016, through an individual interview guided by a semistructured script prepared by the researchers themselves, containing open questions that addressed aspects related to the perception of reeducation on the concept of health and its determinants and determinants. Results: The reports expressed diverse meanings of health for this population, from reduced concepts to broader ones, corresponding to the absence of diseases, access to health professionals and medicines, self-care, possibility of exercising work activities and freedom. Conclusions: It is necessary to create and implement public policies and social projects, offer continuing education to prison professionals, partnership with social actors and active participation of health professionals to guarantee better quality of life for re-education and maintenance of the Prison system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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