A historiografia sobre as prisões na Era Vargas: notas preliminares ao debate

The purpose of this article is to carry out a critical, albeit rather panoramic and selective, approach to the historiography of prisons in the Vargas Age. Itintend to demarcate the predominant approaches in this incipient field of studies in order to explore its potentialities and gaps, suggesting some general problematizations that can strengthen the debate. Therefore,it doesn`tintend here to systematize the works, in the form of a more finished and broad historiographic balance, but to critically dialogue with some references and problems of the historiographical production pertinent to prison studies.