Bibliotecas prisionais e suas práticas

em discussão as informações disponibilizadas pelo Sistema Prisional Federal

Abstract

avaible by the Sistema Penitenciário Federal about the activities carried out in prison libraries, as a device of (trans)formation. It presents the prison libraries in their potential for integration, culture and knowledge production, approaches that are growing in Brazilian research in the field of Information Science. This is an exploratory-descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, with procedures from bibliographic and documental research carried out in the Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior and in websites of the Departamento Penitenciário Nacional and the Ministério da Justiça, in order to demonstrate the importance of mediation actions developed in prison libraries and how the official channels of the prison system disclose information about the reality of educational activities. As a result, we found that the documents produced and disseminated by the Sistema Penitenciário Federal are imprecise in the representation of socio-educational and cultural activities, especially in the indication of the involvement of libraries in the planning, partnerships or execution. It is estimated, with the analysis performed, the promotion of debates focused on the opacity or absence of data related to the reading educational activities in prison libraries and the urgency in the observance of professional and ethical responsibilities for the execution of procedures in benefit of inmates.